Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262674AbUCESxo (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Mar 2004 13:53:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262675AbUCESxn (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Mar 2004 13:53:43 -0500 Received: from mail.zero.ou.edu ([129.15.0.75]:58672 "EHLO c3p0.ou.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262674AbUCESxn (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Mar 2004 13:53:43 -0500 Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 12:53:32 -0600 From: Steve Kenton Subject: Re: new special filesystem for consideration in 2.6/2.7 To: Linux Kernel Message-id: <4048CCAC.60104@ou.edu> Organization: The University Of Oklahoma MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020920 Netscape/7.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 599 Lines: 15 People have kicked around ideas for persistant memory use as a disk replacement etc. with memory mapped data spaces, but until there is actual (affordable) hardware it remains just an interesting thought experiment. If the recent news about giga-bit mram being a real possibility in the not too far future pans out, this may be get more important. smk - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/