Janek Kozicki wrote: > Hi, > > It's possible to have a ramdisk device. yes > Would it make any sense in > doing raid1 using a common HDD and a ramdisk? It sounds interesting if you have a need... md just uses block devices so there shouldn't be a problem. > They would automatically sync on boot-up of the computer. You'd need to create and --add the ramdisk... > I'm asking because an ultra-fast READ and normal WRITE would be > useful for me... Also look at the --write-mostly and --write-behind options in mdadm. David -- "Don't worry, you'll be fine; I saw it work in a cartoon once..." -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html