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Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 06:06:48 +0200
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.10-pre11
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On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 12:00:35AM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
> Well, taking a file on ramfs and doing losetup on it should be equivalent
> to ramdisk.  Turning relevant pieces into a driver shouldn't be too hard.
> It won't be pretty, though - you'll probably want different
> address_space_operations, so that read()/write() wouldn't bother with
> requests at all.

My same idea, agreed.

Andrea