rd man page on OpenBSD

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RD(4)			  OpenBSD Programmer's Manual			 RD(4)

NAME
     rd - ramdisk driver

SYNOPSIS
     pseudo-device rd [count]

DESCRIPTION
     The rd 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 rdsetroot (a.out(5)) or elfrdsetroot (elf(5)) tool.

FILES
     /dev/rd??	 block mode ramdisk devices.
     /dev/rrd??	 raw mode ramdisk devices.

SEE ALSO
     The rdsetroot and elfrdsetroot tools are available as part of the
     distribution toolset.

OpenBSD 4.9			 May 31, 2007			   OpenBSD 4.9

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