Talk:TMPFS

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Someone should add th linux 2.4 release/merge date... All other sections contain a merge date....

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.84.69.20 (talk) 13:02, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

duplicate of Tmpfs please merge. --87.162.197.118 23:34, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, Windows temporary files are nothing like tmpfs. This inclusion in the page is silly. The need for a delete on close as a file property is simply due to the silly filesystem architecture of Windows. In Unix systems, you unlink the file from the directory structure while keeping it open. When the last file descriptor referencing that file is closed, then this last close causes the file to be disposed. The Linux tmpfs works fine without swap turned on, in which case there is no place to evacuate the tmpfs pages. Moving tmpfs pages to swap is done the same way like any other virtual memory; it's not a special feature of tmpfs. --192.139.122.66 19:25, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

The reference ro Ramfs is not appropriate because it redirects to Sysfs (this redirection itself is a very poor choice!), it should be replaced by a reference to RAM_disk. --marc 13:16, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

This article is completely Linux specific. It should be generalized a bit, or least also give some Solaris examples. Any objections? I believe Net- and FreeBSD are adding support for it as well. (unsigned) 09:59, 26 April 2007

I thought so too, so I did it. Maybe someone else can fill in details for other BSDs, etc. Mditto 21:15, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

I also switched to a lower case name when referring to tmpfs, which seems to be almost universally preferred, but I haven't yet renamed the page. It seems that the all-caps variant is only used when together with other file system names, perhaps just because it looks funny to have a lower case name next to UFS, VFAT, EXT2... Mditto 21:15, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

The example shows tmpfs mounted on /dev/shm, not on /tmp at all. han.holl@pobox.com 217.166.18.42 (talk) 11:58, 13 March 2008 (UTC)