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 09:00:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 13 Jan 2001 09:00:24 -0500 Received: from smtpde02.sap-ag.de ([194.39.131.53]:17848 "EHLO smtpde02.sap-ag.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 13 Jan 2001 09:00:21 -0500 To: david+validemail@kalifornia.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: shmem or swapfs? was: [Patch] make shm filesystem part configurable In-Reply-To: <3A604B26.53EC029F@linux.com> From: Christoph Rohland Date: 13 Jan 2001 15:04:41 +0100 In-Reply-To: <3A604B26.53EC029F@linux.com> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Capitol Reef) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org David Ford writes: > 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. 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? Greetings Christoph - 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/