Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [patch?] RAMFS | From | Christoph Rohland <> | Date | 04 Feb 2001 10:53:28 +0100 |
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Mike Galbraith <mikeg@wen-online.de> writes:
> However, tmpfs appears to cover the functionality provided by ramfs. > Are there any uses for ramfs which can't be handled by tmpfs?
Nothing I know of.
> The only thing I could think of was "what if you don't have a > swap device up and running". Seems it doesn't need one :))
Yes and no. tmpfs has a little bit overhead for the noswap case but this overhead is in the kernel anyways for shared anon mappings. The whole vm is using swap unconditionally.
Greetings Christoph
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