Short: Asdg-ram like recoverable ram drive (V2.6) Author: Etienne Vogt (Etienne.Vogt@obspm.fr) Uploader: vogt@alice.obspm.fr Type: disk/misc vdisk.device is a driver for a recoverable RAM disk. It started 2 years ago as a hack of ASDG-RAM (written by Perry S. Kivolowitz). These hacked versions (1.3 -> 1.12) were not distributed. As of version 2.0, it has been entirely rewritten, with many new features added : - Up to 16 units with virtually unlimited size (512 MB) - Dynamic memory allocation and (optionnaly) deallocation - Full support of all AmigaDOS Filesystems. - Will survive the heaviest system crashes as long as its own data is not corrupted. - In case of a recovery failure, the cause can be reported by a support command. VDisk requires AmigaDOS 2.04 or higher (V37). CHANGES V 2.6 : - The kludge for safely using $C00000 memory has been entirely rewritten. It does no longer cause fragmentation of this memory. - The Root structure is now allocated in MEMF_KICK memory (MEMF_LOCAL for OS 2). This should help vdisk to survive reboot on systems with non autoconfig 32bit memory. - Added the allocretry Flags option. - vdisk will now allow memory flushing to occur when it tries to allocate more memory. ============================= Archive contents ============================= Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- ------------- 2112 1395 33.9% 24-Feb-96 16:44:14 CleanRamDisk 674 290 56.9% 24-Aug-94 23:56:02 CleanRamDisk.info 2588 1603 38.0% 24-Feb-96 16:42:12 DeleteRamDisk 482 191 60.3% 24-Aug-94 23:56:02 DeleteRamDisk.info 252 185 26.5% 24-Aug-94 19:51:06 VD0 492 277 43.6% 24-Aug-94 23:55:40 VD0.info 369 197 46.6% 21-Mar-96 16:57:26 VD0.mountlist 5108 3267 36.0% 26-Feb-96 13:20:54 vdisk.device 15223 6065 60.1% 09-Mar-96 23:35:06 vdisk.doc 18218 7056 61.2% 09-Mar-96 23:34:50 vdisk_fr.doc 2684 1620 39.6% 24-Feb-96 16:33:28 VDStat -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- 48202 22146 54.0% 23-Mar-96 06:58:42 11 files