Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 13 Jan 2001 06:16:42 -0800 | From | David Ford <> | Subject | Re: shmem or swapfs? was: [Patch] make shm filesystem part configurable |
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> It is a filesystem which lives in RAM and can swap out. SYSV shm and > shared anonymous maps are still build on top of this (The config > option only disables the part not needed for this). > > I am quite open about naming, but "shm" is not appropriate any more > since the fs does a lot more than shared memory. Solaris calles this > "tmpfs" but I did not want to 'steal' their name and I also do not > think that it's a very good name. > > So any suggestions for a better name?
Hmm, ok, what are the activities that use this other than shm?
-d
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