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RAM disk from NAND space  
Hello,

I'm currently working with a system that uses a NAND resident ETFS filesystem.  Since there are a large amount of 
executibles run here I was thinking that maybe performance could be increased by loading all the executibles/libraries 
in memory.  I'm thinking this look something like a contiguous image stored in NAND (outside of ETFS) that gets copied 
to RAM, mounted and processes are spawned.  Similar in nature to the boot image (or in linux initrd) but loaded after 
the kernel has begun.  

Does this line of thinking make sense to people more experienced with QNX?

I was looking at devb-ram but this does not appear to be able to restore from an image.  Is this something anyone has 
played with? 

Alternatively is there a way to have the ETFS system cached in RAM with write-back access?  Although for this to show 
benefit I would imagine that the entire partition would need to be pre-cached?

Thanks,
Devan
Re: RAM disk from NAND space