in-memory-file-system

In-Memory File System for WIndows

I have a command-line executable which I need to run from Java on Windows XP. It uses files as input and output. But I want to avoid the overhead of file IO, so I thought of an in-memory RAM file system. NetBSD has mount_mfs. Could you recommend the most convenient way of doing this? ...

wget to memory (bypassing disk)

Is it possible to download contents of a website (a set of html pages) straight to memory without writing to disk? I have a cluster of machines with 24G ram each, but I'm limited by a disk quota to several hundreds MB. I was thinking of redirecting the output of wget command for example to some kind of in-memory structure without storing...