some questions to /dev/shm (ramdisk)

Lentes, Bernd bernd.lentes at helmholtz-muenchen.de
Tue Nov 30 22:01:36 UTC 2021


----- On Nov 27, 2021, at 8:30 PM, MegaBrutal megabrutal at gmail.com wrote:

> Hi Bernd,
> 
> What in your use case prevents you from just using tmpfs?
> 
Hi,

i'm not familiar with ramdisk or tmpfs.
But it seems both are used:

root at crispor-server:~# mount
 ...
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,size=15728640k)

Is there a difference between ramdisk and tmpfs ?

Bernd
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