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annotate linux/description.linux-zram.txt @ rev 21679
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1 # Compressed RAM block device support
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3 Creates virtual block devices called /dev/zramX (X = 0, 1, ...). Pages written
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4 to these disks are compressed and stored in memory itself. These disks allow
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5 very fast I/O and compression provides good amounts of memory savings.
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7 It has several use cases, for example: /tmp storage, use as swap disks and
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8 maybe many more.
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10 See Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt for more information.
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