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 <[email protected]>, 2002-2004


LICENSE

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