From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com>
Cc: Dmitry Krivoschekov <dmitry.krivoschekov@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Execute in place
Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 09:46:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <463F57CB.4090301@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200705031433.09364.a1426z@gawab.com>
Al Boldi wrote:
>
> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-07 16:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-02 23:11 Execute in place Al Boldi
2007-05-03 7:31 ` Dmitry Krivoschekov
2007-05-03 11:33 ` Al Boldi
2007-05-03 17:38 ` Dmitry Krivoschekov
2007-05-07 16:46 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-05-07 19:37 ` Al Boldi
2007-05-07 19:41 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-07 20:56 ` Al Boldi
2007-05-08 6:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-08 11:36 ` Al Boldi
2007-05-08 11:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-08 12:02 ` Al Boldi
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-05-01 21:55 Phillip Susi
2007-05-02 14:04 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-05-02 14:38 ` Björn Steinbrink
2007-05-02 15:22 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-05-02 19:30 ` Phillip Susi
2007-05-02 20:34 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-05-03 11:38 ` Erik Mouw
2007-05-03 15:37 ` Jörn Engel
2007-05-03 12:12 ` Robin Getz
2003-06-04 8:34 David Woodhouse
2003-06-04 9:57 ` Charles Manning
2003-06-04 10:02 ` David Woodhouse
2003-06-04 21:02 ` Charles Manning
2003-06-04 9:57 ` Jörn Engel
2003-06-04 10:06 ` David Woodhouse
2003-06-04 10:08 ` David Woodhouse
2003-06-04 12:28 ` Jörn Engel
2003-06-04 20:48 ` Charles Manning
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