shmem or swapfs? was: [Patch] make shm filesystem part configurable
Quoted 6 lines · Albert D. Cahalan
Quoted 4 lines · Christoph Rohland
I am quite open about naming, but "shm" is not appropriate any more since the fs does a lot more than shared memory. Solaris calles this "tmpfs" but I did not want to 'steal' their name and I also do not think that it's a very good name.
Quoted 8 lines
Admins already know what "tmpfs" means, so you should just call your filesystem that. I know it isn't a pretty name, but in the interest of reducing confusion, you should use the existing name.
Don't think of it as just "for /tmp". It is for temporary storage. The name is a reminder that you shouldn't store archives in tmpfs.
Again for compatibility, Sun's size option would be useful.
I agree with Albert; if it does the same thing as Sun's tmpfs, let's call it tmpfs, and use the same options.
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