Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 8 Jun 2006 22:01:38 -0300 | From | "Matheus Izvekov" <> | Subject | Re: Idea about a disc backed ram filesystem |
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On 6/8/06, Måns Rullgård <mru@inprovide.com> wrote: > "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. > > --
The difference is that the swap device is exclusive for the tmpfs mount. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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