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Overview of RAMFS and TMPFS on Linux

This is a guest post written by SathiyaMoorthy. Using ramfs or tmpfs you can allocate part of the physical memory to be used as a partition. You can mount this partition and start writing and reading files like a hard disk partition. Since you’ll be reading and writing to the RAM, it will be faster. [...]

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