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 09:17:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 13 Jan 2001 09:16:55 -0500 Received: from james.kalifornia.com ([208.179.0.2]:604 "EHLO james.kalifornia.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 13 Jan 2001 09:16:47 -0500 Message-ID: <3A60634A.54BB21ED@linux.com> Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 06:16:42 -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: david+validemail@kalifornia.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: shmem or swapfs? was: [Patch] make shm filesystem part configurable In-Reply-To: <3A604B26.53EC029F@linux.com> 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 > 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? -d -- ---NOTICE -- fwd: fwd: fwd: type emails will be deleted automatically. "There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents", Thomas Jefferson [1742-1826], 3rd US President - 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/