ram harddisk? not ramdisk.

From: acthom (acthom_at_not.real.address)
Date: 02/26/05 

Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 01:25:44 +0800

Hi,
  I know there is /dev/ramdisk in Linux. But it can only act like a floppy,
that is, it can contain only one fs. I wonder if there is something using
ram and you can partition it and set multiple fs on partitions, just like
/dev/hda or /dev/sda.
  Thanks in advance. 

--
acthom

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