From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 13 Jan 2001 07:34:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 13 Jan 2001 07:33:51 -0500 Received: from james.kalifornia.com ([208.179.0.2]:18267 "EHLO james.kalifornia.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 13 Jan 2001 07:33:47 -0500 Message-ID: <3A604B26.53EC029F@linux.com> Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 04:33:42 -0800 From: David Ford Reply-To: david+validemail@kalifornia.com Organization: Talon Technology, Intl. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0-ac6 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Rohland CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: shmem or swapfs? was: [Patch] make shm filesystem part configurable In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/