From: David Ford <david@linux.com>
To: Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>
Cc: david+validemail@kalifornia.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: shmem or swapfs? was: [Patch] make shm filesystem part configurable
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 06:16:42 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A60634A.54BB21ED@linux.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m366jj20si.fsf@linux.local> <3A604B26.53EC029F@linux.com> <m33denk0p2.fsf@linux.local>
> It is a filesystem which lives in RAM and can swap out. SYSV shm and
> shared anonymous maps are still build on top of this (The config
> option only disables the part not needed for this).
>
> I am quite open about naming, but "shm" is not appropriate any more
> since the fs does a lot more than shared memory. Solaris calles this
> "tmpfs" but I did not want to 'steal' their name and I also do not
> think that it's a very good name.
>
> So any suggestions for a better name?
Hmm, ok, what are the activities that use this other than shm?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-01-13 14:17 UTC|newest]
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 ` shmem or swapfs? was: " David Ford
2001-01-13 14:04 ` Christoph Rohland
2001-01-13 14:16 ` David Ford [this message]
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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