An answer (see below) to one of the question right here on SO gave me an idea for a great little piece of software that could be invaluable to coders everywhere. I'm imagining a RAMDrive software, but with one cruicial difference - it would mirror a real folder on my hard drive. More specifically - the folder which contains the project ...
Duplicate: RAMDrive for compiling - is there such a thing? I have an idea how to speed up my IDE. I want to create a RAM disk and move my solution onto this virtual disk. I think that this can speed up the IDE because RAM is much faster than a HDD. Has anyone done this before? PS: I think, when I have some documents in my progra...
We're developing Java/SpringSource applications with Eclipse on 32-bit Vista machines with 4GB RAM. The OS exposes roughly 3.3GB of RAM due to reservations for hardware etc. in the virtual address space. I came across several Ramdisk drivers that can create a virtual disk from the OS-hidden RAM and am looking for suggestions how best t...
Hi, I have written a dummy (ram disk) block device driver for linux kernel. When the driver is loaded, I can see it as /dev/mybd. I can successfully transfer data onto it using dd command, compare the copied data successfully. The problem is that when I create ext2/3 filesystem on it, I have to use -o loop option with the mount command...
I was wondering how can I make the IO faster by writing and reading temporary files to main memory. I've used to write to /dev/shm in Linux. But now I'm in Windows 7. Anyone knows the answer ? Thanks ...