Re: tmpfs

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commence  Jan Hudec quotation:

> On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 10:56:22AM -0800, Sameer Kamat wrote:
>>          Can anyone tell me if I there is a module for tmpfs that I can
>> insert into the kernel. I am trying to create a tmpfs in rescue mode. If
>> anyone can, please let me know the source or the object file that I can
>> compile/insert as a module.
>
> AFAIK there is a tmpfs filesystem in standart kernel and it can be
> compiled as a module like all other filesystems.

You need to have CONFIG_TMPFS=y.  There is no option to build tmpfs as
a module.  The text of the option is pretty non-obvious: "Virtual
memory file system support (former shm fs)".  It's under Filesystems.

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