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Re: tmps and swap

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Lew Pitcher wrote:

> On Tuesday 07 February 2012 15:50, in comp.os.linux.security,
> strap@gmx.de wrote:
> 
>> Any hints on how to prevent a tmpfs file system to be written to the
>> swap partition? Other than omitting a swap partition completely, of
>> course. I do not want some files to end up on the hard disk.
> 
> I'm afraid that you can't do that.
> 
> To quote /usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt
>   "Since tmpfs lives completely in the page cache and on swap, all tmpfs
>    pages currently in memory will show up as cached."

Thanks a lot for the clarification. So this is how I did suspect it to 
be. I will have to live with a small risk. No risk, no fun.  
 
Günther

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tmps and swap Günther Schwarz <strap@gmx.de> - 2012-02-07 20:50 +0000
  Re: tmps and swap Lew Pitcher <lpitcher@teksavvy.com> - 2012-02-07 16:15 -0500
    Re: tmps and swap Günther Schwarz <strap@gmx.de> - 2012-02-07 23:01 +0000
      Re: tmps and swap Alexander Schreiber <als@usenet.thangorodrim.de> - 2012-05-31 21:52 +0200
  Re: tmps and swap Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2012-02-07 22:40 +0000
    Re: tmps and swap Günther Schwarz <strap@gmx.de> - 2012-02-07 23:01 +0000
      Re: tmps and swap "Stachu 'Dozzie' K." <dozzie@go.eat.some.screws.spammer.invalid> - 2012-02-08 09:18 +0000
        Re: tmps and swap Günther Schwarz <strap@gmx.de> - 2012-02-09 21:51 +0000
  Re: tmps and swap Pascal Hambourg <boite-a-spam@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2012-02-08 00:34 +0100
    Re: tmps and swap Günther Schwarz <strap@gmx.de> - 2012-02-09 21:51 +0000

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