[mythtv] mythconverg on RAM drive?

[Nigel Pearson]

> Has it ever been considered to store the mythconverg database
> on a RAM drive with periodic updates to a harddrive for backup?

	Lots of options have been considered.
(most recent MySQL Lite - it wasn't faster!)


	The main problem with something like this is that
it removes functionality. A memory buffer is only
easily accessible from the local machine, and MythTV
is a client-server system. How will my slave backend
and Mac laptop frontend access the RAM drive?

	This would also be very hard to implement -
there are SQL statements sprinkled through the code.
Unless you were planning on keeping the SQL interface.


	If you really want the database in RAM,
there is probably a way of setting up MySQL to do that.
Just move /var/lib/mysql (or similar) to /dev/ram0,
restart MySQL, and do some testing.

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