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From: Mike Galbraith <mikeg@wen-online.de>
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Subject: Re: [patch?] RAMFS
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On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> With the patch below...

However, tmpfs appears to cover the functionality provided by ramfs.
Are there any uses for ramfs which can't be handled by tmpfs?

The only thing I could think of was "what if you don't have a
swap device up and running".  Seems it doesn't need one :))

	-Mike

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