On Thu March 25 2004 09:07, you wrote: > On Thu March 25 2004 00:33, Shawn wrote: <snip> > > > the /dev/shm device is setup by Gentoo, but doesn't take any space so > > I've never really worried about it. One day I'll dig deeper into it's > > purpose. > > shm stands for shared memory and is a kind of filesystem held in RAM by the > kernel. In 2.6, it is replaced by tmpfs.
Actually, in kernel 2.4 as well. Here's an article by Daniel Robbins (of Gentoo fame) that goes a little deeper into tmpfs. I found it interesting. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-fs3.html HTH, Curtis _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
