Can the memory for ramDisk be swapped out?

Submitted by sangwf
on November 30, 2006 - 5:05am

If the memory is full, is the memory used for ramdisk swapped to hard disk? thanks.

No. You can use tmpfs if you

Anonymous (not verified)
on
November 30, 2006 - 8:05am

No. You can use tmpfs if you want that functionality.

Can tmpfs be used as swapfs?

on
November 30, 2006 - 9:34am

Can tmpfs be used as swapfs? used as swap space. I assume it can't because it is not dealed as a block device. thanks.

the memory used for ramdis is

on
December 1, 2006 - 3:53am

the memory used for ramdis is in kernel space or user space? thanks.

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