From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 08:38:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 08:38:17 -0500 Received: from smtpde02.sap-ag.de ([194.39.131.53]:10650 "EHLO smtpde02.sap-ag.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 08:38:04 -0500 To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Alan Cox , "Adam J. Richter" , parsley@roanoke.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Rik van Riel Subject: Re: Patch (repost): cramfs memory corruption fix In-Reply-To: From: Christoph Rohland Date: 08 Jan 2001 14:37:13 +0100 In-Reply-To: Linus Torvalds's message of "Sun, 7 Jan 2001 11:56:38 -0800 (PST)" Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) XEmacs/21.1 (Bryce Canyon) 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 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 - 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/