Re: Patch (repost): cramfs memory corruption fix

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 7 Jan 2001 21:20:07 +0000 (GMT)


> Sounds like a job for ... <drum roll> ... tmpfs!!
>
> (and yes, I share your opinion that ramfs is nice _because_
> it's an easy example for filesystem code teaching)

The resource tracking ramfs isnt that much uglier to be honest. One that went
off using backing store would be, but ramfs with limits simply ensures that

dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/ram/foo

doesnt crash your box
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