Messages in this thread |  | | From | Christoph Rohland <> | Subject | Re: Patch (repost): cramfs memory corruption fix | Date | 08 Jan 2001 15:43:19 +0100 |
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Hi Christoph,
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > I had a prototype tmpfs in -test10 (ro so) times. It based on ramfs > for all the metadata stuff and used the (old) shmfs code for > swap-backed data. The only real problem the code had, was that it > needed a ->allocpage address_space method in place of > page_cache_alloc() to directly swap-in pages in ->read. IF anyone > is interested I could forward port it to 2.4.0 and the new shmfs.
Be aware that there is nothing left from the old shm memory/swap handling in 2.4.0. It is a copy of ramfs plus additions for swap and resource limits
If you would be willing to add the read and write functions to the new coding I would be very happy.
Greetings Christoph
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