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diff --git a/hurd/translator/tmpfs.mdwn b/hurd/translator/tmpfs.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..0179ad6c --- /dev/null +++ b/hurd/translator/tmpfs.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +[[!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 +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]]."]]"""]] + +`tmpfs` is a file system server for temporary data storage without using a real +(permanent) [[backing_store]]. + +It is based on [[libdiskfs]]. + +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/*" +show=0 +feeds=no +actions=yes]] |