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Originally Posted by geekmaster
Intentional simplification. I realize it is mounted as a tmpfs device. But for most non-linux users, it "acts" like a RAMdisk, in that you can store temporary files in it that go away on reboot, and with no swap, it exists only in RAM. In general (not necessarily the "linux way") what I just described IS a RAMdisk (from a common layman's perspective.)
Buzzwords like "tmpFS" and deep linux technical details are just noise to most "ordinary" people, but they are powerful terminology for linux geeks. It depends on who your audience is. This is a kindle developer's forum, not so much a linux developer's forum (but "user level" linux knowledge helps, unless you want to write native mode apps that also need deeper linux developer's knowledge).
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Or you have problems making your chroot'd system work.
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