Application-accessible nvram/cache for Linux?
Bill McGonigle
bill at bfccomputing.com
Fri Jun 22 10:01:46 EDT 2007
On Jun 21, 2007, at 16:38, Paul Lussier wrote:
> I don't think they want a drive, they want something like a
> battery-backed cache but accessible from user space.
Somebody who's done systems programming more recently than me, please
speak up, but if you do find a suitable device that looks like a
drive, you might be able to create a big file on it and mmap(2) it
into system memory.
-Bill
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