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tmpfs is a common name for a temporary file storage facility on many Unix-like operating systems.

It is intended to appear as a mounted file system, but stored in volatile memory instead of a persistent storage device. A similar construction is a RAM disk, which appears as a virtual disk drive and hosts a disk file system.

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session_start() error on tmpfs: Protocol driver not attached (49)

I have a Redhat Enterprise LAMP server, hosting a Magento site, where I recently set up tmpfs for the session directory to improve performance. The tmpfs partition is mounted with the following command: mount -t tmpfs -o…
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httpd does not open index.php in folder, mounted like tmpfs

I have a question: I mount folder /var/www/html/testram mount -t tmpfs -o size=5m,mode=0755 tmpfs /var/www/html/testram And put file index.php with some text. When I open site from web browser I don't see any text. What I have: drwxrwxrwx. 2…
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Understand tmpfs size

I need to use a tmpfs on linux. I have some files to play with, I know how many files I have, and I know the size of each file. How can I decide the size of my tmpfs ? I'm using mount program : mount -t tmpfs -o size=?? name_tmpfs…
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How to mount preallocated ISO image in RAM

I have an ISO image (stock Ubuntu 13.10 DVD ISO image) loaded into memory pre-OS and I'm trying to start the Linux installation process from this image. GRUB can recognize the image as a cd and I can start the installation (I'm experimenting with…
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