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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: cr@sap.com (Christoph Rohland)
Cc: viro@math.psu.edu (Alexander Viro),
	torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds),
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rootfs (part 1)
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 00:37:44 +0100 (BST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E150ArQ-0004dj-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3wv7h5p7q.fsf@linux.local> from "Christoph Rohland" at May 16, 2001 04:43:37 PM

> Why do you use ramfs? Most of it is duplicated in tmpfs and ramfs is a
> minimal _example_ fs. There was some agreement that this should stay
> so.

I think ramfs is an incredibly flawed example right now - precisely because
it has no error cases. ramfs with the size limiting is a brilliant fs for
embedded/pda work as well as an example that shows error paths



  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-05-16 23:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-05-16 12:12 [PATCH] rootfs (part 1) Alexander Viro
2001-05-16 14:43 ` Christoph Rohland
2001-05-16 18:23   ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-16 19:47     ` Christoph Rohland
2001-05-16 23:37   ` Alan Cox [this message]
2001-05-16 17:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-05-16 17:45   ` Christoph Rohland
2001-05-16 17:55     ` Jeff Garzik
2001-05-16 18:00     ` Linus Torvalds
2001-05-16 18:23       ` David L. Parsley
2001-05-16 18:46       ` Christoph Rohland
2001-05-16 18:33     ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-16 23:49     ` Alan Cox
2001-05-17  6:46       ` Christoph Rohland
2001-05-16 18:48   ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-16 22:21     ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-05-16 23:06       ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-16 23:24         ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-05-16 23:31           ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-16 23:33 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-17  0:10   ` Alexander Viro

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