Re: Entirely off-topic harddisk questions

From: Keve Nagy (keve_at_private.invalid)
Date: 06/28/05


Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 19:39:29 +0100


> Load the server with ram & make a ram drive. Then make a symbolic link
> from the drive to ram, dump your server files into ram & it's a lot
> less overhead for the hard drive. Put in your starup script to dump
> the ram drive, put into your shutdown script to back it up onto hard
> disk. I do this with an old 500 mb hard disk in order to back up my
> web server pages that I run on a ram disk. I've been doing this for
> over a year, running it on a UPS with zero issues, no regrets.

Hmn. This is an interesting suggestion. Something I would have never
considered by myself, at least not for a long time.
Can you be a bit more specific regarding what files or directories would
you suggest to move over to the ramdisk!

Thanks,
Keve

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