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Re: RAM disk
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Emmanuel <[log in to unmask]>
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Macintosh Scripting Systems <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 26 May 2003 23:10:52 +0200
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At 10:53 AM -0700 26/05/03, Jon Pugh wrote:
>At 11:13 AM -0500 5/26/03, John A.M. Darnell wrote:
>>I will soon be moving a project from OS9 to OSX.  The present project uses
>>a RAM disk.  Does X have a RAM disk capability?
>
>With Unix VM, Disk Copy images are essentially RAM disks.  When you mount an image, it can be mapped into VM space, which is about as close as you get to a RAM disk in Unix.

My unsolicited 2 cents: I think that it is not safe to run an application from a Disk Copy image. Any opinion around?

Emmanuel

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