Messages in this thread | | | From | David Howells <> | Subject | Re: Revised keyrings(7) man page for review | Date | Tue, 13 Dec 2016 14:20:37 +0000 |
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Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> wrote:
> The payload data may be stored in a tmpfs filesystem, > rather than in kernel memory, if the data size exceeds the > overhead of storing the data in the filesystem. (Storing > the data in a filesystem requires filesystem structures to > be allocated in the kernel. The size of these structures > determines the size threshold above which the tmpfs storage > method is used.) Since Linux 4.8, the payload data is > encrypted when stored in tmpfs, to prevent it being written > unencrypted into swap space.
"... thereby preventing it from being written unencrypted into the swapspace"?
David
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