* What is Backing device used for? @ 2011-12-04 11:22 loody 2011-12-04 16:20 ` Mulyadi Santosa 0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: loody @ 2011-12-04 11:22 UTC (permalink / raw) To: kernelnewbies Dear all: Is there any document which explain what "backing device" used for? -- Thanks a lot, ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* What is Backing device used for? 2011-12-04 11:22 What is Backing device used for? loody @ 2011-12-04 16:20 ` Mulyadi Santosa 2011-12-05 4:46 ` rohan puri 0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: Mulyadi Santosa @ 2011-12-04 16:20 UTC (permalink / raw) To: kernelnewbies On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 18:22, loody <miloody@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear all: > Is there any document which explain what "backing device" used for? such as "backing block device" in caching? -- regards, Mulyadi Santosa Freelance Linux trainer and consultant blog: the-hydra.blogspot.com training: mulyaditraining.blogspot.com ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* What is Backing device used for? 2011-12-04 16:20 ` Mulyadi Santosa @ 2011-12-05 4:46 ` rohan puri 2011-12-05 12:57 ` Mandeep Sandhu 0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: rohan puri @ 2011-12-05 4:46 UTC (permalink / raw) To: kernelnewbies On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 9:50 PM, Mulyadi Santosa <mulyadi.santosa@gmail.com>wrote: > On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 18:22, loody <miloody@gmail.com> wrote: > > Dear all: > > Is there any document which explain what "backing device" used for? > > such as "backing block device" in caching? > > -- > regards, > > Mulyadi Santosa > Freelance Linux trainer and consultant > > blog: the-hydra.blogspot.com > training: mulyaditraining.blogspot.com > > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > Kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org > http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies > Backing device in linux is a block device. Regards, Rohan Puri -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/pipermail/kernelnewbies/attachments/20111205/bdecd1f2/attachment.html ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* What is Backing device used for? 2011-12-05 4:46 ` rohan puri @ 2011-12-05 12:57 ` Mandeep Sandhu 0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread From: Mandeep Sandhu @ 2011-12-05 12:57 UTC (permalink / raw) To: kernelnewbies >> > Is there any document which explain what "backing device" used for? Have a look at the initramfs doc to get brief idea: http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt >From what I've understood, is that backing device/store is the device onto which _committed_ data is actually written. This might be a block device like a hard-disk, flash mem or even the RAM (used by in-memory file-systems). CMIIW. HTH, -mandeep ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
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