Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 07 May 2007 09:46:03 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Execute in place |
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Al Boldi wrote: > > Isn't everything really just temporary? > > Would something like an mmap'd tmpfs be possible? >
No. tmpfs relies on being able to leave data structures in the running kernel. In particular, it has no metadata store at all.
The needs for a persistent filesystem are very different, regardless of what the underlying medium is.
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