Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > I recall a post some time ago mentioning that putting /dev on a ramdisk > would allow laptops to use APM. Does anyone know how this is done? I've > never made a ramdisk with linux, and I'm not sure how to replace the /dev > dir before anything starts using it...
Check out the virtual-dev package (in experimental). Package: virtual-dev Version: 0.2 Section: admin Priority: optional Architecture: all Installed-Size: 27 Maintainer: Charles Briscoe-Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Description: Limits disk spin-ups by putting /dev/ on a ramdisk This package attempts to reduce unnecessary access to your IDE disk by creating a ramdisk at boot time, copying the /dev/ directory onto it, and mounting the copy over the top of the real /dev/ directory. . Normally, accesses to devices in /dev/ will cause the kernel to write an updated last-access time to the disk. This ramdisk scheme will cause those writes to go to the ramdisk, and thus not spin up your hard disk. . This package is still experimental; install it only if you can fix configuration problems. -- see shy jo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
