Is There a Perfect Linux Filesystem? Digital Media Digital Marketing Search Engine Strategies by khess … filesystem that comes very close to perfect. It is ramfs. It is dynamically resizable and very fast. The major…. I'd like to see the following capabilities for ramfs in future incarnations: Configurable space quotas, optional write-to… kind of cool if you could configure a distributed ramfs (dramfs) among many systems for a shared resource pool… Re: Is There a Perfect Linux Filesystem? Digital Media Digital Marketing Search Engine Strategies by khess You're right tmpfs is a pretty good alternative (tmpfs is based on ramfs) but it isn't dynamically resizable. I do like the idea of tmpfs using swap for unneeded pages so indeed ramfs needs improvement, hence the article. Re: Is There a Perfect Linux Filesystem? Digital Media Digital Marketing Search Engine Strategies by behanw The point with ramfs and tmpfs is that they aren't persistent. They are … choices depending on what it is you're looking for. ramfs and tmpfs are perfect for what they were meant for… Linux setup problem Hardware and Software Linux and Unix by Durrah … but I noticed the following in Fedora 10: /tmp as ramfs : and at this point the installer stops ubuntu live cd… Linux setup problem Hardware and Software Linux and Unix by Durrah … but I noticed the following in Fedora 10: /tmp as ramfs : and at this point the installer stops ubuntu live cd… Re: Linux setup problem Hardware and Software Linux and Unix by i_tears … but I noticed the following in Fedora 10: /tmp as ramfs : and at this point the installer stops ubuntu live cd… Re: Linux setup problem Hardware and Software Linux and Unix by i_tears … but I noticed the following in Fedora 10: /tmp as ramfs : and at this point the installer stops ubuntu live cd… Re: Modifying tmpfs Hardware and Software Linux and Unix by rubberman … the subject: http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2008/11/overview-of-ramfs-and-tmpfs-on-linux/ Note that tmpfs uses the swap… Re: Is There a Perfect Linux Filesystem? Digital Media Digital Marketing Search Engine Strategies by dandart So what about tmpfs. that you CAN limit? And btrfs is getting pretty close to awesome. As well as Reiser4 and ZFS, they bloody rule. Re: Is There a Perfect Linux Filesystem? Digital Media Digital Marketing Search Engine Strategies by vigneras I just wrote an article on linux filesystem (see: [url]http://www.vigneras.org/pierre/wp/2009/07/21/choosing-the-right-file-system-layout-under-linux/[/url] Actually, when dealing with filesystems various things should be taken into consideration according to applications I/O access pattern. Therefore, even with btrfs or ZFS, other … Re: Linux setup problem Hardware and Software Linux and Unix by Crash~Override first of all quit making two posts for your same problem. Second most of the distros you have tried are older. So please try the latest distros like fedora 11 or ubuntu 9.10 most likely the newer versions have a fix. Also make sure you are installing correctly. For simplest and easiest installation create 2 partitions during installation 1. Swap … Re: Linux setup problem Hardware and Software Linux and Unix by Durrah thank you friend [QUOTE]first of all quit making two posts for your same problem[/QUOTE] it was just an error. besides, I got a Debian 5.3 live CD but it did not work, and yesterday I download OpenSUSE 11.1, but, Alas... again did not work. waiting........................ thanks Re: Linux setup problem Hardware and Software Linux and Unix by Crash~Override [QUOTE=Durrah;1036499]thank you friend it was just an error. besides, I got a Debian 5.3 live CD but it did not work, and yesterday I download OpenSUSE 11.1, but, Alas... again did not work. waiting........................ thanks[/QUOTE] are you doing the installation correctly? Maybe try installing on from a virtual machine this time… Re: Linux setup problem Hardware and Software Linux and Unix by Durrah Thank you so much. I've tried to install it on VMWare, and it works well. Besides, I don't think I've made a wrong, the installer [B]hungs up at some step(this is the main problem)[/B] as I have pointed, so I cannot do any installation step. but I have been informed that the problem may be caused by the HDD which is (ATA). thanks again and waiting … Re: Linux setup problem Hardware and Software Linux and Unix by Durrah Hello eveybody thank you for all members contribute in solving my problem I have finally gotten linux installed on my laptop, Mandriva dis~ was the working one, but I need some drivers for my hardware indeed, I want Motorola sm56 data fax modem driver, sis mirage 3(672 chipset) driver, and realtek HD one. JDurrah.