Well, here's what I know about it... shmfs = "Shared Memory File System" - contents sit in RAM and swap partitions - used to implement POSIX.4 shared memory support. Here is an early announce of it: http://lwn.net/1998/0409/a/shmfs.html Code can be found here: http://www.users.qwest.net/~ebiederman/files/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Stewart" <andystewart@mediaone.net> To: <wlug@mail.wlug.org> Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2001 6:40 PM Subject: [Wlug] What is shmfs?

HI gang,

After upgrading to a 2.4 kernel, I now see a mounted device thus:

Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on shmfs 76220 0 76220 0%

/dev/shm

I can't find anything written that says what this is. I seem to be able to put files there. Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Andy -- Andy Stewart Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org

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