Re: Patch (repost): cramfs memory corruption fix

Christoph Rohland (cr@sap.com)
08 Jan 2001 14:37:13 +0100


Hi Linus,

On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I wonder what to do about this - the limits are obviously useful, as
> would the "use swap-space as a backing store" thing be. At the same
> time I'd really hate to lose the lean-mean-clean ramfs.

Let me repeat on this issue: shmem.c has everything needed for this
despite read and write and they should be really easy to add.

I did not plan to write them in the near future because I did not
think that this is a really wanted feature. But I can look into it.

Greetings
Christoph

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