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Re: Any Kernel Hackers in the house

From ruben safir <ruben@mrbrklyn.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject Re: Any Kernel Hackers in the house
Date 2015-04-22 05:38 -0400
Organization PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
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On 04/21/2015 06:40 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Aragorn a écrit :
>>
>> A ramdisk is a block device which exists in RAM and is (usually) static 
>> in size, whereas a tmpfs exists in virtual memory
> 
> To complete, a tmpfs is not a block device but a filesystem, and exists
> only when it is mounted. A ramdisk does not need to be mounted to exist
> and can contain any kind of data structure that can be stored in a block
> device, including but not limited to disk-based filesystems (ext4, btrfs...)
> 


what is the difference between virtual memory and ram?

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Any Kernel Hackers in the house ruben safir <dont@email.me> - 2015-03-21 08:24 +0000
  Re: Any Kernel Hackers in the house ruben safir <dont@email.me> - 2015-03-21 16:21 +0000
  Re: Any Kernel Hackers in the house Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2015-03-21 19:04 +0100
    Re: Any Kernel Hackers in the house Pascal Hambourg <boite-a-spam@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2015-03-21 22:48 +0100
      Re: Any Kernel Hackers in the house ruben <ceo@iran.gov> - 2015-04-20 09:11 +0000
        Re: Any Kernel Hackers in the house Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2015-04-20 14:49 +0200
          Re: Any Kernel Hackers in the house Pascal Hambourg <boite-a-spam@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2015-04-22 00:40 +0200
            Re: Any Kernel Hackers in the house ruben safir <ruben@mrbrklyn.com> - 2015-04-22 05:38 -0400
              Re: Any Kernel Hackers in the house ruben safir <ruben@mrbrklyn.com> - 2015-04-22 05:39 -0400
    Re: Any Kernel Hackers in the house Baho Utot <baho-utot@columbus.rr.com> - 2015-03-21 17:52 -0400
      Re: Any Kernel Hackers in the house Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2015-03-22 00:03 +0100
  Re: Any Kernel Hackers in the house Pascal Hambourg <boite-a-spam@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2015-03-21 22:50 +0100
    Re: Any Kernel Hackers in the house ruben safir <ruben@mrbrklyn.com> - 2015-03-21 18:25 -0400
      Re: Any Kernel Hackers in the house Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2015-03-22 10:51 +0100
    Re: Any Kernel Hackers in the house ruben <ceo@iran.gov> - 2015-04-20 09:18 +0000
  Re: Any Kernel Hackers in the house Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2015-03-22 10:28 +0000
    Re: Any Kernel Hackers in the house ruben <ceo@iran.gov> - 2015-04-20 09:35 +0000
      Re: Any Kernel Hackers in the house Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2015-04-20 10:37 +0100
        Re: Any Kernel Hackers in the house ruben safir <ruben@mrbrklyn.com> - 2015-04-20 09:36 -0400
          Re: Any Kernel Hackers in the house Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2015-04-20 16:23 +0100
            Re: Any Kernel Hackers in the house ruben safir <ruben@mrbrklyn.com> - 2015-05-01 01:55 -0400
  Re: Any Kernel Hackers in the house Thomas Richter <thor@math.tu-berlin.de> - 2015-03-24 13:00 +0100
    Re: Any Kernel Hackers in the house ruben safir <dont@email.me> - 2015-03-25 02:54 +0000

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