Linux software...

[mdulcey at pryder.pn.com (Mark J. Dulcey)]

On Mon, 24 Feb 1997, Dale R. Worley wrote:

>    Many Linux CDs come with a "live filesystem."  This allows you to
>    run Linux from a very minimal configuration, using just a boot
>    floppy, a swap partition on the hard drive, and a CD, without
>    actually installing.  Of course, since CD is a slow medium, system
>    performance will be painful.
> 
> Is there any way to get the kernel to use the hard disk partition to
> cache the CD as well as process data?

The Linux Universe distribution comes with a special caching file system
to do that (it involves a kernel patch that is already installed in their
kernels).  Their code could probably be adapted to other versions of Linux
as well.