* Juergen Fiedler juergen.fiedler@gmail.com [20061109 18:15]:
I have observed something odd: When I write data to a mounted hard drive partition while running from the livecd, the amount of written data is subtracted from the free RAM, i.e., if I do a
dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/hda1/tmp/testfile bs=1M count=512
with /dev/hda1 mounted on /mnt/hda1, I am losing 512M of my RAM; deleting the file frees up that RAM. After rebooting, the file is still there, but doesn't take up any RAM anymore.
I think I may be missing something vitally important about how the unionfs is set up. Can anybody please tell me how I can write files to an HD without them taking up RAM, too?
JFTR:
Well, as written on IRC caching is a good thing. ;) AFAIK your problems seems to be solved, if not please let us know.
regards, -mika-