RAM disk

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Meaning

(computer science) a virtual drive that is created by setting aside part of the random-access memory to use as if it were a group of sectors

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access to a RAM disk is very fast but the data it contains is lost when the system is turned off Source: Internet

Curtin has a special cloud-init syntax for running commands inside the install image, which we need to use since during the install process we’re actually running in a RAM disk. Source: Internet

However, edited versions of a document were "saved" only to this RAM disk, and had to be copied to physical magnetic media before rebooting. Source: Internet

For example, in 1986 the only program that made use of it was VDISK, a RAM disk driver included with PC DOS 3.0 and 3.1. Source: Internet

We copy files to and from a wicked-fast RAM disk to measure read and write performance. Source: Internet

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