rd(4)

rd4

Ramdisk driver

Usage

pseudo-device rd [count]

Overview

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 tool.

Files

/dev/rd??

Block mode ramdisk devices.

/dev/rrd??

Raw mode ramdisk devices.

Releases

52 releases since OpenBSD 3.0; the text changed 5 times.

  1. 3.0–3.4
  2. 3.5–3.6
  3. 3.7–4.1
  4. 4.2–5.4
  5. 5.5–6.5
  6. 6.6–8.0

From man 8.0-current-20261101 in OpenBSD 8.0-current (2026-11-01). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.