Re: Crazy ramdisk idea

Matthias Urlichs (smurf@noris.de)
25 Jan 1997 15:32:13 +0100

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In linux.dev.kernel, article <199701192336.TAA01051@fan1.fan.nb.ca>,
William Burrow <aa126@fan.nb.ca> writes:
>
> An idea that has occurred to me is a type of filesystem I'll dub ramdiskfs.
> In this hypothetical fs, text pages within executables would be shared
> with the ramdiskfs pages, thereby getting around the problem of loading
> the program into memory twice. I have no idea how practicable this idea
> is nor how to implement it at this time. This would be quite a win for
> large executables and libraries loaded into ramdisk.
>
Linux already does this.

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