From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267324AbUGNPpj (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jul 2004 11:45:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267329AbUGNPpi (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jul 2004 11:45:38 -0400 Received: from slartibartfast.pa.net ([66.59.111.182]:65481 "EHLO slartibartfast.pa.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267324AbUGNPpK (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jul 2004 11:45:10 -0400 Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 11:42:51 -0400 (EDT) From: William Stearns X-X-Sender: wstearns@sparrow Reply-To: William Stearns To: Michael Buesch cc: linux kernel mailing list , William Stearns Subject: Re: [Q] don't allow tmpfs to page out In-Reply-To: <200407141654.31817.mbuesch@freenet.de> Message-ID: References: <200407141654.31817.mbuesch@freenet.de> 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 Good afternoon, Michael, On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Michael Buesch wrote: > Is it possible to disable the tmpfs feature to page out > memory to swap? > I didn't find any mount option or something like that > for it in the documentation. I suspect a regular ramdisk, as opposed to tmpfs, would do what you want. Cheers, - Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Heisenberg _may_ have slept here." (Courtesy of Rick Stevens ) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- William Stearns (wstearns@pobox.com). Mason, Buildkernel, freedups, p0f, rsync-backup, ssh-keyinstall, dns-check, more at: http://www.stearns.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------