From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 16 May 2001 13:52:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 16 May 2001 13:51:57 -0400 Received: from smtpde02.sap-ag.de ([194.39.131.53]:2484 "EHLO smtpde02.sap-ag.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 16 May 2001 13:51:46 -0400 From: Christoph Rohland To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Alexander Viro , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] rootfs (part 1) In-Reply-To: Organisation: SAP LinuxLab Date: 16 May 2001 19:45:46 +0200 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Bryce Canyon) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SAP: out X-SAP: out X-SAP: out Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Linus, On Wed, 16 May 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Looks ok, but it also feels like 2.5.x stuff to me. > > Also, there's the question of whether to make ramfs just built-in, > or make _tmpfs_ built in - ramfs is certainly simpler, but tmpfs > does the same things and you need that one for shared mappings etc. > > Comments? cr:/speicher/src/u4ac9 $ ls -l mm/shmem.o* -rw-r--r-- 1 cr users 154652 Mai 16 19:27 mm/shmem.o-tmpfs -rw-r--r-- 1 cr users 180764 Mai 16 19:24 mm/shmem.o+tmpfs cr:/speicher/src/u4ac9 $ ls -l fs/ramfs/ramfs.o -rw-r--r-- 1 cr users 141452 Mai 16 19:27 fs/ramfs/ramfs.o So CONFIG_TMPFS adds 26k and ramfs 140k. Greetings Christoph