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SubjectRe: Execute in place
Al Boldi wrote:
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> 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.

-hpa
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