- linus's ACTUAL reply.
Okay, the sleep situation has not improved. I'll admit that right now. But it's ABOUT to. G'night...
Rob
Quoted 4 lines · Rob Landley
So fork ramfs already. Copy the snapshot you like as an educational tool, call it
skeletonfs.cor some such, and let the current code evolve into something more useful.
The thing is, that I'm not sure that even the extended ramfs is really useful except for very controlled environments (ie initrd-type things where the contents of the ramdisk is _controlled_, and as such the addition of limits is not necessarily all that useful a feature). Others have spoken up on why tmpfs isn't a good thing either, with good arguments.
So it's not all about teaching.
I think the ramfs limit code has a good argument from Alan for embedded devices, so that probably will make it in. However, even so it's obviously not a 2.4.1 issue, AND as shown by the fact that apparently the thing is buggy and still worked on I wouldn't want the patches right now in the first place.
Linus