Messages in this thread |  | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: ramdisk/tmpfs/ramfs/memfs ? | Date | 26 Apr 2001 13:49:05 -0700 |
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Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1010426203656.22847A-100000@medusa.sparta.lu.se> By author: Bjorn Wesen <bjorn@sparta.lu.se> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > 5. Can you set size limits on ramfs/tmpfs/memfs? > > i don't think you can set a limit in the current ramfs implementation but > it would not be particularly difficult to make it work I think >
It's a little more painful than you'd think for the simple reason that ramfs currently contains no space accounting whatsoever, which probably is a bad thing. It definitely gave me some serious pause when I was working on SuperRescue 1.3, since I had no way of reasonably judging how big my ramfs actually was. The only way I could get a reasonable idea was rebooting with various mem= parameters.
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