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From: "David S. Ahern" <daahern@cisco.com>
Subject: Re: .img on nfs, relative on ram, consuming mass ram
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 08:49:50 -0600
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On 09/16/10 03:09, Andre Przywara wrote:
> Which is only natural, as tmpfs is promising to never swap. So it will

pages in tmpfs can swap. That's difference between ramfs and tmpfs. From
Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt:

"tmpfs puts everything into the kernel internal caches and grows and
shrinks to accommodate the files it contains and is able to swap
unneeded pages out to swap space."

David