Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Dec 2000 16:00:05 +1300 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: innd mmap bug in 2.4.0-test12 |
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On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 04:27:06PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
ramfs. It doesn't have a writepage() function, as there is no backing store.
this remind me; perhaps you or Al could answer this.
How hard would it be to have ramfs backed by swap? The goal being try to achieve something like a FreeBSDs mfs.
I use ramfs for /tmp on my laptop -- it's very handy because it extends the amount of the the disk had spent spun down and therefore battery life; but writing large files into /tmp can blow away the system or at the very least eat away at otherwise usable ram. Not terribly desirable.
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