Messages in this thread |  | | From | Christoph Rohland <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs | Date | 28 Nov 2001 18:37:46 +0100 |
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Hi Padraig,
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Padraig Brady wrote: >> In contrast to RAM disks, which get allocated a fixed amount of >> physical RAM, tmpfs grows and shrinks to accommodate the files it >> contains and is able to swap unneeded pages out to swap space. > > > > That isn't the case now since ramdisks were integrated with the > buffer cache:
What isn't the case any more?
> $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/use_mem bs=1024 count=20000
On what filesystem is /tmp/use_mem located? What do you want to show?
Greetings Christoph
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