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    SubjectRe: PATCH: allow percentile size of tmpfs (2.5.66 / 2.4.20-pre2)
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    Hi Ed,

    On Tue, 01 Apr 2003, Ed Tomlinson wrote:
    > What does tmpfs have to do with ram size? Its swappable. This
    > _might_ be useful for ramfs but for tmpfs, IMHO, its not a good
    > idea.

    I agree and I think if you add this option it should adjust to a
    percentage of (ram + swap). With this it would be a really nice
    improvement.
    I even had patches for this but to do it efficently you would need to
    add some hooks to swapon and swapoff.

    Greetings
    Christoph


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