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@amikot was asking me how to implement a RAMDISK in DSM and I found this guide. So many thanks to mark and as usual I don't accept any liability for any data loss or damage caused by using this tutorial(s). I wrote a little script which adapts to your environment and asks if you would like to specify the amount of RAM in percent or GB the amount of RAM which should be used for the Ramdisk an existing folder where your RAMDISK should be created. E.g. /volume1/ramdisk You have to save the following lines as "create_ramdisk.sh" run it, answer the questions and add two tasks (which is demonstrated in the gif) to the task scheduler: #!/bin/bash echo Do you want to specify the amount of RAM, which should be used for the RAMDISK, in percent or in GB? read ram_unit if [ $ram_unit = 'percent' ]; then echo Please type in the amount of RAM which should be used. E.g. 2 for 2GB or 2 percent depending on your former choice read ram_amount elif [ $ram_unit = 'GB' ]; then read ram_amount else echo "Please enter percent or GB" read ram_unit echo Please type in the amount of RAM which should be used. E.g. 2 for 2GB or 2 percent depending on your former choice read ram_amount fi echo Please type in an existing folder where your RAMDISK should be created. E.g. /volume1/ramdisk read path mkdir $path/ramdisk mkdir $path/ramdisk-local if [ $ram_unit = 'percent' ]; then echo "#!/bin/sh mount -t tmpfs -o size="$ram_amount"% ramdisk $path/ramdisk sleep 1 rsync -ahW --no-compress $path/ramdisk-local/ $path">| $path/mount-ramdisk.sh else echo "#!/bin/sh mount -t tmpfs -o size="$ram_amount"G ramdisk $path/ramdisk sleep 1 rsync -ahW --no-compress $path/ramdisk-local/ $path">| $path/mount-ramdisk.sh fi echo "#!/bin/sh rsync -ahW --no-compress --delete $path/ramdisk/ $path/ramdisk-local/">| $path/sync-ramdisk.sh one for mounting the ramdisk when booting your NAS the second is a rsync job to copy the files from the ramdisk to a ssd/hdd here is the command for listing your ramdisk after creating and mounting it df | grep "ramdisk" here is the command for testing speed but keep in mind to adapt your path and RAM amount to your environment sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/volume1/ramdisk/ramdisk/test1.img bs=30G count=1 oflag=dsync For anyone wondering: ramdisk refers to the content which is temporarily saved in your ram ramdisk-local is the copied content from the ramdisk to your hdd/ssd Unmounting the ramdisk is possible via rebooting your NAS or running this command: umount ramdisk

I'm not a linux wise indeed 😨 I would like to use some temporal files in RAM with some scripts, but I can't see any tmpfs in DSM. Any clue to use RAM filesystem?