Using ram ie. Temporary file system, Not ramdisk

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pedr
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Using ram ie. Temporary file system, Not ramdisk

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When I was using Linux it was easy to use tempfs
to save writes on the hard drive. The files were obviously deleted when I signed off. In Bsd I am not sure how to go about it as especially Zfs has its own way of doing things. Advice would be appreciated.
wb7odyfred
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Re: Using ram ie. Temporary file system, Not ramdisk

Post by wb7odyfred »

https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/tmpf ... oot.70809/
Has some answers, use what appeals to you.

https://wiki.freebsd.org/TMPFS WIKI entry for TMPFS

[url]https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?tmpfs[/url] FreeBSD Manual Page

https://herrbischoff.com/2018/02/faster ... and-tmpfs/ Compiles with ccache and tmpsfs example
https://mabufs.com/blog/tmpfs-freebsd example use of tmpfs in FreeBSD, by mabufs

I have not given an answer, merely provide sources to read and learn the details of creating a ram based TMPFS that works with the GhostBSD ZFS file system. I am interested to use your solution in a GhostBSD-ARM64 kernel, install on a Raspberry Pi 4B. Fred
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