Re: Execute in place

[H. Peter Anvin]

Al Boldi wrote:
> 
> Isn't everything really just temporary?
> 
> Would something like an mmap'd tmpfs be possible?
> 

No.  tmpfs relies on being able to leave data structures in the running
kernel.  In particular, it has no metadata store at all.

The needs for a persistent filesystem are very different, regardless of
what the underlying medium is.

	-hpa
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