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From: Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>
To: david+validemail@kalifornia.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: shmem or swapfs? was: [Patch] make shm filesystem part configurable
Date: 13 Jan 2001 17:51:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m38zofiedv.fsf@linux.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m366jj20si.fsf@linux.local> <3A604B26.53EC029F@linux.com> <m33denk0p2.fsf@linux.local> <3A60634A.54BB21ED@linux.com>

David Ford <david@linux.com> writes:

> Hmm, ok, what are the activities that use this other than shm?

You can e.g. use it for your /tmp filesystem. there seem to be some
people out there which used ramfs for that...

What do you think about "vmfs"? This probably reflects its nature
better than swapfs.

Greetings
                Christoph

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  reply	other threads:[~2001-01-13 18:25 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
2001-01-13 16:51       ` Christoph Rohland [this message]
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
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-01-13 20:58 Dan Kegel

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