Re: [PATCH] rootfs (part 1)

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>]

Christoph Rohland wrote:
> 
> Hi Linus,
> 
> On Wed, 16 May 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Looks ok, but it also feels like 2.5.x stuff to me.
> >
> > Also, there's the question of whether to make ramfs just built-in,
> > or make _tmpfs_ built in - ramfs is certainly simpler, but tmpfs
> > does the same things and you need that one for shared mappings etc.
> >
> > Comments?
> 
> cr:/speicher/src/u4ac9 $ ls -l mm/shmem.o*
> -rw-r--r--    1 cr       users      154652 Mai 16 19:27 mm/shmem.o-tmpfs
> -rw-r--r--    1 cr       users      180764 Mai 16 19:24 mm/shmem.o+tmpfs
> cr:/speicher/src/u4ac9 $ ls -l fs/ramfs/ramfs.o
> -rw-r--r--    1 cr       users      141452 Mai 16 19:27 fs/ramfs/ramfs.o
> 
> So CONFIG_TMPFS adds 26k and ramfs 140k.

On what system?  I don't think this is a good measure...
> [jgarzik@rum linux_2_4]$ ls -l fs/ramfs/ramfs.o 
> -rw-r--r--    1 jgarzik  jgarzik      5830 May 15 09:29 fs/ramfs/ramfs.o
> [jgarzik@rum linux_2_4]$ ls -l mm/shmem.o (includes tmpfs)
> -rw-r--r--    1 jgarzik  jgarzik     17496 May 15 09:28 mm/shmem.o

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