Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Matthias Urlichs) | Subject | Re: Crazy ramdisk idea | Date | 25 Jan 1997 15:32:13 +0100 |
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In linux.dev.kernel, article <199701192336.TAA01051@fan1.fan.nb.ca>, William Burrow <aa126@fan.nb.ca> writes: > > An idea that has occurred to me is a type of filesystem I'll dub ramdiskfs. > In this hypothetical fs, text pages within executables would be shared > with the ramdiskfs pages, thereby getting around the problem of loading > the program into memory twice. I have no idea how practicable this idea > is nor how to implement it at this time. This would be quite a win for > large executables and libraries loaded into ramdisk. > Linux already does this.
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