From: "Måns Rullgård" <mru@inprovide.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Idea about a disc backed ram filesystem
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 00:40:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yw1x4pyvdxn4.fsf@agrajag.inprovide.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <305c16960606081548m316099awafa619bb5d0d14f0@mail.gmail.com>
"Matheus Izvekov" <mizvekov@gmail.com> writes:
> My idea consisted of adding the capability to specify a device for
> tmpfs mounting. if you dont specify any device, tmpfs continues to
> behave the way it currently is. But if you do, once data doesnt fit on
> ram (or some other limit) anymore, it will flush things to this
> device. my intention was to reuse swap code for this, so you mount a
> tmpfs passing the dev node of some unused swap device, and it works
> just like tmpfs with a dedicated swap partition.
I don't see what advantage this would have over normal tmpfs.
--
Måns Rullgård
mru@inprovide.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-08 23:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <Sash_lkl@linuxhowtos.org>
2006-06-08 20:33 ` Sascha Nitsch
2006-06-08 20:43 ` Lennart Sorensen
2006-06-08 21:12 ` Sash
2006-06-09 10:45 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-06-08 21:51 ` Horst von Brand
2006-06-08 22:39 ` Joshua Hudson
2006-06-08 22:48 ` Matheus Izvekov
2006-06-08 23:40 ` Måns Rullgård [this message]
2006-06-09 1:01 ` Matheus Izvekov
2006-06-09 8:52 ` Måns Rullgård
2006-06-09 2:17 ` Horst von Brand
2006-06-09 4:59 ` Matheus Izvekov
2006-06-09 13:43 ` Horst von Brand
2006-06-09 15:07 ` Matheus Izvekov
2006-06-09 18:43 ` Lee Revell
2006-06-09 19:27 ` Matheus Izvekov
2006-06-09 19:31 ` Lee Revell
2006-06-09 19:43 ` Matheus Izvekov
2006-06-09 20:03 ` Lee Revell
2006-06-09 21:23 ` Matheus Izvekov
2006-06-09 23:37 ` Horst von Brand
2006-06-09 6:33 ` Andi Kleen
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