[Gllug] Grub on lvm

[Rich Walker]

"John Hearns" <hearnsj at googlemail.com> writes:

> 2009/1/9 Hari Sekhon <hpsekhon at googlemail.com>
>
>> J
>> > I may be wrong but is there any reason why the ram disk has to remain
>> > resident in memory? Or could it end up being swapped out like anything
>> else?
>> > In which case it is a choise of allocating tmp+swap space or considating
>> it
>> > with just swap.
>> >
>>
> Not sure about tmpfs, but shared memory segments  can be swapped out.
>
> I'm sitting in a performance tuning and analysis training course studying
> things just like this :-)

tmpfs swaps out happily, too.



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