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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/*"