Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754759AbYHSQbv (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:31:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752747AbYHSQbo (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:31:44 -0400 Received: from mercury.sdinet.de ([193.103.161.30]:39520 "EHLO mercury.sdinet.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750853AbYHSQbn (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:31:43 -0400 Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:31:41 +0200 (CEST) From: Sven-Haegar Koch To: Chen Pei Chao cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jackie.chen@foxconn.com Subject: =?ISO-8859-8?Q?Re=3A_Is_there_linux_RAM_filesystem_with_a_fixed_amount_of_memory=3F=FE?= In-Reply-To: <016201c90203$b12fff40$110afea9@acer44836bb3d7> Message-ID: References: <016201c90203$b12fff40$110afea9@acer44836bb3d7> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (DEB 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 726 Lines: 22 On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, Chen Pei Chao wrote: > Is there any RAM file system that use a fixed amount of memory at all times > and will not grow and > shrink dynamically like tmpfs? > Thanks in advance. There are the old-style ramdisk block-devices, which will just claim the specified amount of memory and can be formatted with any filesystem. c'ya sven -- The Internet treats censorship as a routing problem, and routes around it. (John Gilmore on http://www.cygnus.com/~gnu/) -- 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/