Re: How can I create a Ram Disk within C/C++ program?

Flash Gordon wrote:

It's no more difficult and no less system specific than it was back
then. The difference is that if you are doing it to speed things up you
are quite possibly wasting your time and effort. Ever head of caching?
It's something some OSs are quite good at.

It still makes sense on diskless clients that boot over NFS and so on.
It's also indicated in some applications where security is sensitive, or
for devices that need to operate in environments where moving parts are
impractical.

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