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SubjectRe: ramdisk/tmpfs/ramfs/memfs ?
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Followup to:  <Pine.LNX.3.96.1010426203656.22847A-100000@medusa.sparta.lu.se>
By author: Bjorn Wesen <bjorn@sparta.lu.se>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> > 5. Can you set size limits on ramfs/tmpfs/memfs?
>
> 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.

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