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From: Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	"Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>,
	parsley@roanoke.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Subject: Re: Patch (repost): cramfs memory corruption fix
Date: 08 Jan 2001 14:37:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <qwwwvc6tbau.fsf@sap.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10101071153470.27944-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
In-Reply-To: Linus Torvalds's message of "Sun, 7 Jan 2001 11:56:38 -0800 (PST)"

Hi Linus,

On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I wonder what to do about this - the limits are obviously useful, as
> would the "use swap-space as a backing store" thing be. At the same
> time I'd really hate to lose the lean-mean-clean ramfs.

Let me repeat on this issue: shmem.c has everything needed for this
despite read and write and they should be really easy to add. 

I did not plan to write them in the near future because I did not
think that this is a really wanted feature. But I can look into it.

Greetings
		Christoph

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-01-08 13:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-01-07  6:41 Patch (repost): cramfs memory corruption fix Adam J. Richter
2001-01-07 13:53 ` Alan Cox
2001-01-07 19:26   ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-07 19:42     ` Alan Cox
2001-01-07 19:56       ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-07 21:11         ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-07 21:20           ` Alan Cox
2001-01-08  6:56           ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-01-07 21:54         ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-01-08 13:37         ` Christoph Rohland [this message]
2001-01-08 14:19           ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-01-08 14:43             ` Christoph Rohland
2001-01-08 14:42           ` Alan Cox
2001-01-08 14:49             ` Christoph Rohland
2001-01-07 20:39       ` David L. Parsley
2001-01-08 18:27         ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-08  3:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-08 13:11   ` David Woodhouse
2001-01-08 12:30     ` Shane Nay
2001-01-08 14:34     ` David Woodhouse
2001-01-10 23:30   ` [PATCH] one-liner fix for bforget() honoring BH_Protected; was: " David L. Parsley
2001-01-11  4:23     ` Linus Torvalds

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