Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 Apr 2003 09:35:16 +0100 (BST) | From | Hugh Dickins <> | Subject | RE: PATCH: allow percentile size of tmpfs (2.5.66 / 2.4.20-pre2) |
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On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Robert White wrote:
> This (using swap as part of the tmpfs type system) is what happens on a Sun. > I was disappointed (surprised even) in the Linux implementations because > mounting a truly temporary /tmp was what I wanted it for.
The Linux implementation of tmpfs _does_ use swap: tmpfs data pages go out to swap under memory pressure.
> I would like to see a tmpfs (swapfs?) that did presume that files not in use > (lately?) would migrate out of my valuable RAM and onto the super-cheap swap > device.
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