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  Tmpfs is a file system which keeps all files in virtual memory.
  
  
  Everything in tmpfs is temporary in the sense that no files will be
  created on your hard drive. If you unmount a tmpfs instance,
  everything stored therein is lost.
  
  tmpfs puts everything into the kernel internal caches and grows and
  shrinks to accommodate the files it contains and is able to swap
  unneeded pages out to swap space. It has maximum size limits which can
  be adjusted on the fly via 'mount -o remount ...'
  
  If you compare it to ramfs (which was the template to create tmpfs)
  you gain swapping and limit checking. Another similar thing is the RAM
  disk (/dev/ram*), which simulates a fixed size hard disk in physical
  RAM, where you have to create an ordinary filesystem on top. Ramdisks
  cannot swap and you do not have the possibility to resize them. 
  
  Since tmpfs lives completely in the page cache and on swap, all tmpfs
  pages currently in memory will show up as cached. It will not show up
  as shared or something like that. Further on you can check the actual
  RAM+swap use of a tmpfs instance with df(1) and du(1).
  
  
  tmpfs has the following uses:
  
  1) There is always a kernel internal mount which you will not see at
     all. This is used for shared anonymous mappings and SYSV shared
     memory. 
  
     This mount does not depend on CONFIG_TMPFS. If CONFIG_TMPFS is not
     set, the user visible part of tmpfs is not build. But the internal
     mechanisms are always present.
  
  2) glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for
     POSIX shared memory (shm_open, shm_unlink). Adding the following
     line to /etc/fstab should take care of this:
  
  	tmpfs	/dev/shm	tmpfs	defaults	0 0
  
     Remember to create the directory that you intend to mount tmpfs on
     if necessary.
  
     This mount is _not_ needed for SYSV shared memory. The internal
     mount is used for that. (In the 2.3 kernel versions it was
     necessary to mount the predecessor of tmpfs (shm fs) to use SYSV
     shared memory)
  
  3) Some people (including me) find it very convenient to mount it
     e.g. on /tmp and /var/tmp and have a big swap partition. And now
     loop mounts of tmpfs files do work, so mkinitrd shipped by most
     distributions should succeed with a tmpfs /tmp.
  
  4) And probably a lot more I do not know about :-)
  
  
  tmpfs has three mount options for sizing:
  
  size:      The limit of allocated bytes for this tmpfs instance. The 
             default is half of your physical RAM without swap. If you
             oversize your tmpfs instances the machine will deadlock
             since the OOM handler will not be able to free that memory.
  nr_blocks: The same as size, but in blocks of PAGE_CACHE_SIZE.
  nr_inodes: The maximum number of inodes for this instance. The default
             is half of the number of your physical RAM pages, or (on a
             machine with highmem) the number of lowmem RAM pages,
             whichever is the lower.
  
  These parameters accept a suffix k, m or g for kilo, mega and giga and
  can be changed on remount.  The size parameter also accepts a suffix %
  to limit this tmpfs instance to that percentage of your physical RAM:
  the default, when neither size nor nr_blocks is specified, is size=50%
  
  If nr_blocks=0 (or size=0), blocks will not be limited in that instance;
  if nr_inodes=0, inodes will not be limited.  It is generally unwise to
  mount with such options, since it allows any user with write access to
  use up all the memory on the machine; but enhances the scalability of
  that instance in a system with many cpus making intensive use of it.
  
  
  tmpfs has a mount option to set the NUMA memory allocation policy for
  all files in that instance (if CONFIG_NUMA is enabled) - which can be
  adjusted on the fly via 'mount -o remount ...'
  
  mpol=default             use the process allocation policy
                           (see set_mempolicy(2))
  mpol=prefer:Node         prefers to allocate memory from the given Node
  mpol=bind:NodeList       allocates memory only from nodes in NodeList
  mpol=interleave          prefers to allocate from each node in turn
  mpol=interleave:NodeList allocates from each node of NodeList in turn
  mpol=local		 prefers to allocate memory from the local node
  
  NodeList format is a comma-separated list of decimal numbers and ranges,
  a range being two hyphen-separated decimal numbers, the smallest and
  largest node numbers in the range.  For example, mpol=bind:0-3,5,7,9-15
  
  A memory policy with a valid NodeList will be saved, as specified, for
  use at file creation time.  When a task allocates a file in the file
  system, the mount option memory policy will be applied with a NodeList,
  if any, modified by the calling task's cpuset constraints
  [See Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt] and any optional flags, listed
  below.  If the resulting NodeLists is the empty set, the effective memory
  policy for the file will revert to "default" policy.
  
  NUMA memory allocation policies have optional flags that can be used in
  conjunction with their modes.  These optional flags can be specified
  when tmpfs is mounted by appending them to the mode before the NodeList.
  See Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt for a list of all available
  memory allocation policy mode flags and their effect on memory policy.
  
  	=static		is equivalent to	MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES
  	=relative	is equivalent to	MPOL_F_RELATIVE_NODES
  
  For example, mpol=bind=static:NodeList, is the equivalent of an
  allocation policy of MPOL_BIND | MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES.
  
  Note that trying to mount a tmpfs with an mpol option will fail if the
  running kernel does not support NUMA; and will fail if its nodelist
  specifies a node which is not online.  If your system relies on that
  tmpfs being mounted, but from time to time runs a kernel built without
  NUMA capability (perhaps a safe recovery kernel), or with fewer nodes
  online, then it is advisable to omit the mpol option from automatic
  mount options.  It can be added later, when the tmpfs is already mounted
  on MountPoint, by 'mount -o remount,mpol=Policy:NodeList MountPoint'.
  
  
  To specify the initial root directory you can use the following mount
  options:
  
  mode:	The permissions as an octal number
  uid:	The user id 
  gid:	The group id
  
  These options do not have any effect on remount. You can change these
  parameters with chmod(1), chown(1) and chgrp(1) on a mounted filesystem.
  
  
  So 'mount -t tmpfs -o size=10G,nr_inodes=10k,mode=700 tmpfs /mytmpfs'
  will give you tmpfs instance on /mytmpfs which can allocate 10GB
  RAM/SWAP in 10240 inodes and it is only accessible by root.
  
  
  Author:
     Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>, 1.12.01
  Updated:
     Hugh Dickins, 4 June 2007
  Updated:
     KOSAKI Motohiro, 16 Mar 2010