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 13:25:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 13 Jan 2001 13:24:51 -0500 Received: from zeus.kernel.org ([209.10.41.242]:59872 "EHLO zeus.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 13 Jan 2001 13:24:33 -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> <3A60634A.54BB21ED@linux.com> From: Christoph Rohland Date: 13 Jan 2001 17:51:56 +0100 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: > 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 - 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/