From: David Ford <david@linux.com>
To: Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: shmem or swapfs? was: [Patch] make shm filesystem part configurable
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 04:33:42 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A604B26.53EC029F@linux.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m366jj20si.fsf@linux.local>
Christoph Rohland wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The appended patch (additional to my read/write support patch) makes
> the shm filesystem configurable and renames it to the more sensible
> name swapfs. Since the fs type "shm" is quite established with 2.4 I
> register that name also.
Now...is this shared memory or swap? If it's swap, why is it different than a swapfile? If you are intending the shmem be called swapfs, I
personally thing that it'll cause a significant amount of confusion.
-d
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-13 10:49 [Patch] make shm filesystem part configurable Christoph Rohland
2001-01-13 12:33 ` David Ford [this message]
2001-01-13 14:04 ` shmem or swapfs? was: " Christoph Rohland
2001-01-13 14:16 ` David Ford
2001-01-13 16:51 ` Christoph Rohland
2001-01-13 22:39 ` David Ford
2001-01-13 20:14 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-01-14 9:56 ` Christoph Rohland
2001-01-14 13:56 ` James H. Cloos Jr.
[not found] ` <20010114134457.A14486@uni-mainz.de>
2001-01-14 21:29 ` Christoph Rohland
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2001-01-13 20:58 Dan Kegel
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