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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