From: Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>
To: "mirabilos" <eccesys@topmail.de>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: ramdisk/tmpfs/ramfs/memfs ?
Date: 27 Apr 2001 15:41:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m34rvah33k.fsf@linux.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3AE879AE.387D3B78@antefacto.com> <Pine.LNX.3.96.1010426203656.22847A-100000@medusa.sparta.lu.se> <20010426223950.C3683@l-t.ee> <9caevn$65j$1@cesium.transmeta.com> <025f01c0cf0e$5feb1eb0$de00a8c0@homeip.net>
In-Reply-To: <025f01c0cf0e$5feb1eb0$de00a8c0@homeip.net>
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, eccesys@topmail.de wrote:
>> > tmpfs is basically ramfs with limits.
>> >
>>
>> ... and swappable.
>>
>> -hpa
>
> Hmmm and what's shmfs? Precedessor of tmpfs?
Yes.
> I even cant remember which one I use for /tmp ;-)
You can mount tmpfs also with type "shm" for compatibility. Type "shm"
will be marked as obsolete in 2.5
Greetings
Christoph
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-04-27 13:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-04-26 19:40 ramdisk/tmpfs/ramfs/memfs ? Padraig Brady
2001-04-26 18:48 ` Bjorn Wesen
2001-04-26 20:39 ` Marko Kreen
2001-04-27 0:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-04-27 11:32 ` mirabilos
2001-04-27 13:41 ` Christoph Rohland [this message]
2001-04-26 20:49 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-04-26 22:25 ` Ingo Oeser
2001-04-27 9:36 ` David Woodhouse
2001-04-27 11:36 ` mirabilos
2001-06-22 8:15 ` Padraig Brady
2001-04-27 15:56 ` David Woodhouse
2001-04-27 16:19 ` mirabilos
2001-04-27 17:39 ` David L. Parsley
2001-04-27 17:53 ` Padraig Brady
2001-04-27 17:23 ` Xavier Bestel
2001-04-28 10:30 ` David Woodhouse
2001-04-27 16:23 ` Padraig Brady
2001-04-27 14:31 ` Bjorn Wesen
2001-04-27 15:38 ` Christoph Rohland
2001-04-27 7:58 ` Christoph Rohland
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