Hi Robert,
Sorry. I donot quite understand. My English is poor... :-(
Do you mean there wonot be another duplicated text section in RAM when
application in Ramfs is executed?
Regards,
Colin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Love" <[email protected]>
To: "Tim Bird" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>; "colin" <[email protected]>;
<[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 1:38 AM
Subject: ?@[*?U???l??*] Re: What File System supports Application XIP
> On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 09:56 -0700, Tim Bird wrote:
>
> > Most other filesystems populate the pagecache with I/O, presumably.
> > In the case of a ramfs, is the page mapped directly from the fs
> > into the pagecache without a copy?
>
> ramfs _is_ pagecache.
>
> it is cool like that.
>
> Robert Love
>
>
>
On Fri, 2004-09-10 at 10:12 +0800, colin wrote:
> Sorry. I donot quite understand. My English is poor... :-(
> Do you mean there wonot be another duplicated text section in RAM when
> application in Ramfs is executed?
This is correct, Colin.
Ramfs is essentially an in-memory filesystem implemented in the page
cache.
Robert Love