non-persistent storage?

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Tue Dec 17 08:49:00 GMT 2019


On Dec 17 09:32, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Ulli Horlacher!
> 
> > /dev/shm ist not a tmpfs on cygwin:
> 
> Cygwin is a userspace DLL. It is not a filesystem driver.
> 
> > /dev/shm: df -TH /dev/shm
> > Filesystem     Type  Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> > C:/cygwin64    ntfs   34G   25G  9.1G  74% /
> 
> > When I write something into this direcory and reboot, it is still there.
> 
> Use iSCSI RAM disk?
> http://woshub.com/create-ram-disk-windows-server/

Great idea!  Pity this only works on server machines.


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
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