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From: Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>
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Subject: Re: PATCH: allow percentile size of tmpfs (2.5.66 / 2.4.20-pre2)
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Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 18:27:47 +0200
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Hi Ed,

On Tue, 01 Apr 2003, Ed Tomlinson wrote:
> What does tmpfs have to do with ram size?  Its swappable.  This
> _might_ be useful for ramfs but for tmpfs, IMHO, its not a good
> idea.

I agree and I think if you add this option it should adjust to a
percentage of (ram + swap). With this it would be a really nice
improvement.
I even had patches for this but to do it efficently you would need to
add some hooks to swapon and swapoff.

Greetings
		Christoph