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diff --git a/hurd/translator/tmpfs.mdwn b/hurd/translator/tmpfs.mdwn index 6d10c163..626fad86 100644 --- a/hurd/translator/tmpfs.mdwn +++ b/hurd/translator/tmpfs.mdwn @@ -1,22 +1,24 @@ -[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011 Free Software Foundation, +Inc."]] -[[meta license="""[[toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[toggleable +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license -is included in the section entitled -[[GNU_Free_Documentation_License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] `tmpfs` is a file system server for temporary data storage without using a real (permanent) [[backing_store]]. 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. -[[inline -pages="hurd/translator/tmpfs/*" -show=0 -actions=yes -rootpage="hurd/translator/tmpfs" postformtext="Add a new item titled:"]] +However, `tmpfs` is not working correctly at the moment, see the [[discussion]] +sub-pages. There is a [[!FF_project 271]][[!tag bounty]] on this task. |