Re: Re: What File System supports Application XIP

[colin]

Hi Robert,
Sorry. I donot quite understand. My English is poor... :-(
Do you mean there wonot be another duplicated text section in RAM when
application in Ramfs is executed?

Regards,
Colin


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Love" <rml@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Tim Bird" <tim.bird@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <arjanv@xxxxxxxxxx>; "colin" <colin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>;
<linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 1:38 AM
Subject: ?[*????*] Re: What File System supports Application XIP


> On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 09:56 -0700, Tim Bird wrote:
>
> > Most other filesystems populate the pagecache with I/O, presumably.
> > In the case of a ramfs, is the page mapped directly from the fs
> > into the pagecache without a copy?
>
> ramfs _is_ pagecache.
>
> it is cool like that.
>
> Robert Love
>
>
>


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