Re: Thoughts on tmpfs and swapfs

Riley Williams (rhw@MemAlpha.CX)
Thu, 9 Aug 2001 18:54:39 +0100 (BST)


Hi Ivan.

>> I have to admit that tmpfs is new to me, but I would assume it's
>> a filing system for temporary files, that works along the lines
>> of a ramdisk?

> Don't let the name fool you. This filesystem is used for share
> memory and is extension to shmfs (that should be obsolete in
> 2.6.x kernels). It is temporaly becouse it loses all it's
> content on reboot/umount.

Ah - so not what I assumed at all. That completely changes the
scenario. Thanks for clarifying that.

Best wishes from Riley.

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