Re: ramdisk/tmpfs/ramfs/memfs ?

[Christoph Rohland]

On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, [e-mail] wrote:
>> > tmpfs is basically ramfs with limits.
>> > 
>> 
>> ... and swappable.
>> 
>> -hpa
> 
> Hmmm and what's shmfs? Precedessor of tmpfs?

Yes.

> I even cant remember which one I use for /tmp ;-)

You can mount tmpfs also with type "shm" for compatibility. Type "shm"
will be marked as obsolete in 2.5

Greetings
		Christoph