Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch] tmpfs for 2.4.1 | From | Christoph Rohland <> | Date | 03 Feb 2001 16:02:27 +0100 |
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"J . A . Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es> writes:
> I did not get the chance to deal too much with it, but apart from moving > functionality from userspace (ipcs) to kernel (ls), what were/could be the > benefits of /dev/shm ?. Can you create a shared memory segment by simply > creating a file there, or it is just a picture of what is in kernelspace?.
The most appealing thing to me was rm -f /dev/shm/.IPC* :-) So I should make a patch to ipcrm to allow multiple segments (and wildcards?).
You could not create SYSV shm segments with open, but you could delete them with rm and list the with ls.
> First time I saw that I thought: what could happen if /dev/shm is shared > in a cluster ? or, lets suppose that /dev/shm is a logical volume made by > addition of some nfs mounted volumes, one of each node, so one piece of > the shm fs is local and other remote...kinda DSM/NUMA...?
No, this was never possible. It was only a fs interface to local kernel objects (and still is).
> (just too much marijuana late at night...)
Oh, you are allowed to dream ;-)
Greetings Christoph
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