linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: unify shmem and tiny-shmem

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Date:	Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:57:26 -0500
From:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
To:	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
Cc:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>, David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: unify shmem and tiny-shmem


On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 19:39 +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On a different but related subject:
> do you think we need to retain the CONFIG_TMPFS option?  It's rather
> odd these days, since everybody gets ramfs, and you give them tmpfs
> via ramfs without CONFIG_SHMEM.  If anybody wants to cut out the
> TMPFS code overhead these days, wouldn't they be using !CONFIG_SHMEM?

I agree, it's pretty hard to see a situation where you'd want full
swap-backed shm and not full swap-backed tmpfs. I'll spin up a patch to
follow on my unification.

-- 
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.

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