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authorThomas Schwinge <Thomas Schwinge schwinge@nic-nac-project.de>2009-05-23 16:33:08 +0200
committerThomas Schwinge <Thomas Schwinge schwinge@nic-nac-project.de>2009-05-23 16:33:08 +0200
commit0702126f2c5d233ed4ed6b188f40472521a991c4 (patch)
tree084db67b41c09275b3a66e0c51f2f42181dfe3e2 /hurd/translator/tmpfs.mdwn
parent45330a4073852117efcc7fba1608d6bf169dfe2a (diff)
Say why having a tmpfs is worthwhile.
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@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation,
+Inc."]]
[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
@@ -13,7 +14,13 @@ is included in the section entitled
It is based on [[libdiskfs]].
-It's not working correctly at the moment.
+Even though there are other possibilities of creating a
+[[libstore/examples/ramdisk]] and running a regular, for example, [[`ext2` file
+system|ext2fs]] on it, having a real `tmpfs` is better, as it need not deal
+with the additional block-level indirection layer that `ext2` (or any other
+disk-based file system) imposes.
+
+However, `tmpfs` is not working correctly at the moment:
[[!inline
pages="hurd/translator/tmpfs/*"