Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Idea about a disc backed ram filesystem | Date | Thu, 08 Jun 2006 22:17:23 -0400 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Matheus Izvekov <mizvekov@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I had a somewhat similar idea, once i have time to implement it ill > submit a patch. > 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.
tmpfs does use swap currently. Giving tmpfs a dedicated swap space is dumb, as it takes away the possibility of using that space for swapping when not in use by tmpfs (and viceversa). -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - 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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