Marco wrote: > Linux traditionally had no support for a persistent, non-volatile > RAM-based filesystem, persistent meaning the filesystem survives a > system reboot or power cycle intact. The RAM-based filesystems such as > tmpfs and ramfs have no actual backing store but exist entirely in the > page and buffer caches, hence the filesystem disappears after a system > reboot or power cycle. Why is a ramdisk not sufficient for this? Why is an entire filesystem needed, instead of simply a block driver if the ramdisk driver cannot be used? It just struck me as a lot of code which might be completely unnecessary for the desired functionality. -- Jamie -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
