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From: Sven-Haegar Koch <haegar@sdinet.de>
To: Chen Pei Chao <jackie73@ms2.hinet.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jackie.chen@foxconn.com
Subject: Re: Is there linux RAM filesystem with a fixed amount of memory?‏
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:31:41 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0808191830260.21827@mercury.sdinet.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <016201c90203$b12fff40$110afea9@acer44836bb3d7>

On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, Chen Pei Chao wrote:

> Is there any RAM file system that use a fixed amount of memory at all times
> and will not grow and
> shrink dynamically like tmpfs?
> Thanks in advance.

There are the old-style ramdisk block-devices, which will just claim the 
specified amount of memory and can be formatted with any filesystem.

c'ya
sven

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-08-19 16:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-19 13:58 Chen Pei Chao
2008-08-19 14:39 ` David Newall
2008-08-19 16:31 ` Sven-Haegar Koch [this message]
2008-08-21  3:16 Chen Pei Chao
2008-08-21  4:05 ` David Newall
2008-08-21 11:51   ` Chen Pei Chao

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