Messages in this thread | | | From | Måns Rullgård <> | Subject | Re: Idea about a disc backed ram filesystem | Date | Fri, 09 Jun 2006 00:40:31 +0100 |
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"Matheus Izvekov" <mizvekov@gmail.com> writes:
> My idea consisted of adding the capability to specify a device for > tmpfs mounting. if you dont specify any device, tmpfs continues to > behave the way it currently is. But if you do, once data doesnt fit on > ram (or some other limit) anymore, it will flush things to this > device. my intention was to reuse swap code for this, so you mount a > tmpfs passing the dev node of some unused swap device, and it works > just like tmpfs with a dedicated swap partition.
I don't see what advantage this would have over normal tmpfs.
-- Måns Rullgård mru@inprovide.com
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