node-ramdisk
create a ram disk with node.js
API
var ramdisk =
return a ramdisk
object
ramdisk(volumeName)
var disk = ramdisk('my_ramdisk')
ramdisk#create(size[, callback(err, mount)])
- size - {integer} the size of the volume in MB
- callback - {function}
- err - {Error} error message
- mount - {string} the mounted block, in case of error is undefined
ramdisk#delete(volume[, callback(err, res)])
- mount - {string} the mounted block
- callback {function}
- err - {Error} error message
- res - {string} return 'ok' in case of success, in case of error is undefined
Note: delete will eject the volume and remove the mount folder
Usage
var ramdisk = var disk = var volumePoint // create a disk with 100MB of sizedisk // when isn't needed then delete the diskdisk
Debug
DEBUG=node-ramdisk ...
Supported OS
- darwin (bad performance - is taking around 1 sec. to create the disk in my macbook pro mid 2012)
- linux (good performance - 20/30 mls to create the disk in a vagrant vm with few resources)
Development
this projet has been set up with a precommit that forces you to follow a code style, no jshint issues and 100% of code coverage before commit
to run test
npm test
to run jshint
npm run jshint
to run code style
npm run code-style
to run check code coverage
npm run check-coverage
to open the code coverage report
npm run open-coverage