On Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 09:31:20PM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote: > On Thu, 9 Mar 2023, Luis Chamberlain wrote: > > > I'm doing this work as part of future experimentation with tmpfs and the > > page cache, but given a common complaint found about tmpfs is the > > innability to work without the page cache I figured this might be useful > > to others. It turns out it is -- at least Christian Brauner indicates > > systemd uses ramfs for a few use-cases because they don't want to use > > swap and so having this option would let them move over to using tmpfs > > for those small use cases, see systemd-creds(1). > > Thanks for your thorough work on tmpfs "noswap": seems well-received > by quite a few others, that's good. > > I've just a few comments on later patches (I don't understand why you > went into those little rearrangements at the start of shmem_writepage(), > but they seem harmless so I don't object), Because the devil is in the details as you noted too! > but wanted to ask here: > > You say "a common complaint about tmpfs is the inability to work without > the page cache". Ehh? That was a mistake! s/page cache/swap. Luis
