On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Joey Hess wrote:
> 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). Thanks, it worked here but there was still lots of disk activity :< I went so far as killing everything but network services and going into a text console and it still ran the disk about every min. <sigh> Sitting here normally in X without virtual-dev there is a disk io about ever 10 seconds! My poor drive :> Would the no-atime patch help any? Thanks, Jason -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
