Salvo Tomaselli <tipos...@tiscali.it> writes:
>> So what? If you write to a normal file system, it goes into the page
>> cache, which is pretty much the same as writing into tmpfs.
> tmpfs will make it stay forever in the RAM, caches are flushed to disk and
> their space can be used for new things.
> - Ted
No, tmpfs will be swapped out if you don't use a file for a while but
something else uses memory, including IO caching. The difference to a
disk based filesystem is that most disk based filesystems force the
write out after a short wait (1-60s).
MfG
Goswin
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