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Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 04:37:19 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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To: Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com>
CC: Dmitry Krivoschekov <dmitry.krivoschekov@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: Execute in place
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Al Boldi wrote:
> 
> You don't really think that anybody is suggesting to store the tmpfs data 
> without any coherency, do you?
> 
> I am suggesting that you can easily isolate tmpfs coherency from the rest of 
> the page-cache, by simply streaming tmpfs data out to an mmap and plugging 
> it with the tmpfs fat on umount.  And streaming things back in on mount.
> 

You still don't get it, do you?

tmpfs metadata doesn't live in the pagecache.

	-hpa
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