On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 08:35:33AM +0530, Ashok kumar wrote: > what is the use of ramfs in the linux kernel? It's used for lots of things, from specific filesystems like securityfs or debugfs or usbfs, to a general ram based filesystem, and for some internal-to-the kernel filesystems that it uses to manage resources for userspace or the kernel internals. Hope this helps, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ