From: Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: Execute in place
Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 15:02:11 +0300
User-Agent: KMail/1.5
Cc: Dmitry Krivoschekov <dmitry.krivoschekov@gmail.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
References: <200705030211.36293.a1426z@gawab.com> <200705081436.11928.a1426z@gawab.com> <464060EF.8090501@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <464060EF.8090501@zytor.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
  charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline
Message-Id: <200705081502.11210.a1426z@gawab.com>
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
Content-Length: 796
Lines: 27

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 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.

It does not matter; you can deduce it on umount.


Thanks!

--
Al

-
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/