NAME: Cache::RamDisk

Sharing of Perl Objects Between Processes on Several RAM Drives

VERSION

0.1.6

DESCRIPTION

The package collects as much ramdisks to a bundle as possible and necessary to hold the required user space, depending on the respective parameters under which the system's individual kernel had been compiled. The system user and group who owns the cache can be specified for the whole rd bunch, say cache.

REQUIRES

Perl B<5.6.1> on a Linux/ Unix System containing the following binaries:

chown, mkdir, mke2fs, mount, touch, umount

The package uses these Perl modules available from CPAN:

IPC::Shareable
IPC::SysV
Filesys::Df
Filesys::Statvfs
File::stat
Fcntl
Symbol
Class::Struct
POSIX

INSTALLATION

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

AUTHOR & COPYRIGHT

Martin Haase-Thomas <njarl@punkass.com>, 2002-2004

LICENSE

This library is free software. You can modify and/or redistribute it under the same terms as Perl itself.