Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 27 Apr 2001 00:25:54 +0200 | From | Ingo Oeser <> | Subject | Re: ramdisk/tmpfs/ramfs/memfs ? |
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On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 01:49:05PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > 5. Can you set size limits on ramfs/tmpfs/memfs?
Yes, there is a patch for this.
> > 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.
The patched variant gives to all of it. Even several kinds of limits (inodes, dentries, ram pages).
I use this patch in production.
The ac-Kernels all have this patch included, which are sometimes more stable anyway these day. ;-)
HTH
Regards
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