From: "[MOc]cda*mirabilos" <mirabilos@netcologne.de>
To: "Padraig Brady" <padraig@antefacto.com>,
"Christoph Rohland" <cr@sap.com>
Cc: "Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 20:38:25 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <003101c1784c$a19aaa00$25aefea9@ecce> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3y9kqon6w.fsf@linux.local> <3C051F2D.2030804@antefacto.com> <m3u1veokyd.fsf@linux.local> <3C05238C.5080903@antefacto.com>
> >>>In contrast to RAM disks, which get allocated a fixed amount of
> >>>physical RAM, tmpfs grows and shrinks to accommodate the files it
> >>>contains and is able to swap unneeded pages out to swap space.
> >>That isn't the case now since ramdisks were integrated with the
> >>buffer cache:
> > What isn't the case any more?
> Because the RAM is now (de)allocated as required.
> Filesystem? ext2 on /dev/ram1(rd.o)
> meminfo shows the memory being reclaimed as the file is deleted.
And this is transparent to {any|the ext2fs} underlying filesystem?
What if I use xfs, rasierfs, ntfs, $* ?
-mirabilos
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-28 16:49 [RFC] Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs Christoph Rohland
2001-11-28 17:30 ` Padraig Brady
2001-11-28 17:37 ` Christoph Rohland
2001-11-28 17:49 ` Padraig Brady
2001-11-28 20:38 ` [MOc]cda*mirabilos [this message]
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