Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 13 Jan 2001 04:33:42 -0800 | From | David Ford <> | Subject | shmem or swapfs? was: [Patch] make shm filesystem part configurable |
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Christoph Rohland wrote:
> Hi, > > The appended patch (additional to my read/write support patch) makes > the shm filesystem configurable and renames it to the more sensible > name swapfs. Since the fs type "shm" is quite established with 2.4 I > register that name also.
Now...is this shared memory or swap? If it's swap, why is it different than a swapfile? If you are intending the shmem be called swapfs, I personally thing that it'll cause a significant amount of confusion.
-d
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