more data re disk i/o

[Ian Lance Taylor]

Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com> writes:

> Ian Lance Taylor <ian@wasabisystems.com> writes:
> 
> > What we really need is a file system which stays in RAM up to a point,
> > and then swaps out to the swap file.  But I don't suppose Linux has
> > anything like that.
> 
> 2.4/2.6 has tmpfs which is exactly this.  (originally implemented for
> the sake of /dev/shm, but it's a general filesystem)

Sounds promising, and I see it listed in /proc/filesystems on
sourceware.  Does anybody here have any experience with this?

Ian