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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.
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