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Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 23:06:50 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com> To: Al Boldi <a1426z@...ab.com> CC: Dmitry Krivoschekov <dmitry.krivoschekov@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Execute in place Al Boldi wrote: > >> What you're talking about is, *and should be*, a different filesystem. >> You will relatively quickly find that you have to deal with the same >> kind of stuff that you have to in any filesystem. > > That's exactly what I want to avoid, as this would introduce a performance > penalty. > > All we need is a periodically synced tmpfs to mmap, with a minimal stream > into page-cache algo on mount. > ... which would be completely useless, because you wouldn't get any sort of coherency; you would have pointers pointing into space, etc. etc. Sorry, it's useless. -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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