Re: shmem or swapfs? was: [Patch] make shm filesystem part configurable

Christoph Rohland (cr@sap.com)
13 Jan 2001 17:51:56 +0100


David Ford <david@linux.com> writes:

> Hmm, ok, what are the activities that use this other than shm?

You can e.g. use it for your /tmp filesystem. there seem to be some
people out there which used ramfs for that...

What do you think about "vmfs"? This probably reflects its nature
better than swapfs.

Greetings
Christoph

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