A demonstration how to create a Ramdisk on Mac OSX (highly experimental!).
This can be very useful if a fast temporary storage is needed. Provides a with definition that can be used like this:
fold = "testfolder"
assert check_is_same_device_as_root_fs(fold)
with ramdisk_mounter.ramdisk(folder=fold):
assert not check_is_same_device_as_root_fs(fold)
assert check_is_same_device_as_root_fs(fold)
Requirements: Mac OSX 10.7.5, linux has tmpfs...
Report Bugs if you notice any.
Ramdisk-Mounter can be installed via pip from this repository:
pip install git+http://github.com/dmr/ramdisk-mounter.git#egg=ramdisk-mounter
The installation provided the command "ramdisk_mounter". Basic usage:
mkdir ram_fold
# create a ramdisk with 2GB
ramdisk_mounter -f fold/ attach -s 2048
# <do i/o heavy commands now>
# detach RAM disk again
ramdisk_mounter -f fold/ detach
You can run the tests by executing
python setup.py test