<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>I wished there was a way to mirror a ram disk to real disk. Not in real-time, but something that would backup the fs in ram to spindles and not interfere with performance. A minimum example would be a midnight rsync. </div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Jim Kinney" <jim.kinney@gmail.com><br><b>To: </b>"Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!" <ale@ale.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, August 18, 2015 8:42:26 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [ale] Desktop 32GB of RAM<br></blockquote></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><p dir="ltr">+1 on the ram disk! Great for readonly databases :-)</p><p dir="ltr">Unless you're running HUGE graphic files through gimp or editing video, 32G is not going to get used.</p><p dir="ltr">However, chrome will cache the entire interwebs and borg into the collective search engine so get 64G _MINIMUM_if you plan to (get) use(d by) chrome.</p><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div></blockquote></div></div></body></html>