Re: cachefs / tmpfs

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 22 Sep 1996 12:08:41 +0100 (BST)


> Has anyone given any thought to creating either of these
> filesystem types.... I have found them to be pretty useful and it would be
> great if Linux had such implemetations too. :)

The ramdisk is a pretty good tmpfs now since it allocates from the cache and
doesnt waste memory. I don't know if the various bugs in using it like that
in 1.3.x got fixed. Only one way to find out