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Old 09-07-2003, 04:16 AM   #1
seazon
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tmpfs


Who can tell me what the "tmpfs" is?

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Old 09-07-2003, 04:45 AM   #2
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It's a temporary filesystem that is built... Here's a better explaination than my sorry one

http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v2.4/1...tems/tmpfs.txt

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