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| author | Thomas Schwinge <Thomas Schwinge schwinge@nic-nac-project.de> | 2009-05-23 16:33:08 +0200 |
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| committer | Thomas Schwinge <Thomas Schwinge schwinge@nic-nac-project.de> | 2009-05-23 16:33:08 +0200 |
| commit | 0702126f2c5d233ed4ed6b188f40472521a991c4 (patch) | |
| tree | 084db67b41c09275b3a66e0c51f2f42181dfe3e2 /hurd/translator/tmpfs.mdwn | |
| parent | 45330a4073852117efcc7fba1608d6bf169dfe2a (diff) | |
Say why having a tmpfs is worthwhile.
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| -rw-r--r-- | hurd/translator/tmpfs.mdwn | 11 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/hurd/translator/tmpfs.mdwn b/hurd/translator/tmpfs.mdwn index abd47c96..0179ad6c 100644 --- a/hurd/translator/tmpfs.mdwn +++ b/hurd/translator/tmpfs.mdwn @@ -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/*" |