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Revision 1.7, Tue Apr 16 13:58:45 2019 UTC (5 years, 1 month ago) by sunil
Branch: MAIN
CVS Tags: OPENBSD_7_5_BASE, OPENBSD_7_5, OPENBSD_7_4_BASE, OPENBSD_7_4, OPENBSD_7_3_BASE, OPENBSD_7_3, OPENBSD_7_2_BASE, OPENBSD_7_2, OPENBSD_7_1_BASE, OPENBSD_7_1, OPENBSD_7_0_BASE, OPENBSD_7_0, OPENBSD_6_9_BASE, OPENBSD_6_9, OPENBSD_6_8_BASE, OPENBSD_6_8, OPENBSD_6_7_BASE, OPENBSD_6_7, OPENBSD_6_6_BASE, OPENBSD_6_6, HEAD
Changes since 1.6: +4 -7 lines 

elfrdsetroot is now rdsetroot(8).

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.\"   $OpenBSD: rd.4,v 1.7 2019/04/16 13:58:45 sunil Exp $
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.\" This file is in the public domain.
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.Dd $Mdocdate: April 16 2019 $
.Dt RD 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm rd
.Nd ramdisk driver
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Cd "pseudo-device rd" Op Ar count
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
driver enables use of system or user memory as a disk.
Memory for the disk must be allocated and initialized inside the
kernel image at build-time using the
.Cm rdsetroot
tool.
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width /dev/rrd??XXX -compact
.It Pa "/dev/rd??"
Block mode ramdisk devices.
.It Pa "/dev/rrd??"
Raw mode ramdisk devices.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr elf 5 ,
.Xr rdsetroot 8