How to map a folder to memory?

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Is there a way to map a particular folder to memory? Say I have C:\somePath and I want that folder to be in memory at all times and maybe changes are dumped to HDD asynchronously without my notice. So this is more like a forced caching of HDD content in memory... For Windows 7 or any windows OS?

why would you want to do this? – Jim B May 24 '11 at 13:30 — Jim B, May 24 '11 at 13:30
To have faster read write times. – yusuf May 27 '11 at 03:20 — yusuf, May 27 '11 at 03:20
I second this - is there something like tmpfs? – Krab Apr 02 '12 at 09:37 — Krab, Apr 02 '12 at 09:37

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 24 '14 at 16:47

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You need 3rd party software to do this. One program that can do this is ImDisk. ImDisk will create a new drive letter which you can make a link to from any folder you want: mklink /D C:\somePath E:\somePath.

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 24 '11 at 13:37

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by default the windows cache manager does an OK job of managing cache size and will not add too much cache to a system. You can tweak the cache size but not the contents by default.

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So this approach is not possible in Windows? – yusuf May 27 '11 at 03:21

How to map a folder to memory?

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