wok-next diff linux/description.linux-zram.txt @ rev 19981
Add libvdpau
author | Aleksej Bobylev <al.bobylev@gmail.com> |
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date | Wed Oct 18 09:58:12 2017 +0300 (2017-10-18) |
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1.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 1.2 +++ b/linux/description.linux-zram.txt Wed Oct 18 09:58:12 2017 +0300 1.3 @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ 1.4 +# Compressed RAM block device support 1.5 + 1.6 +Creates virtual block devices called /dev/zramX (X = 0, 1, ...). Pages written 1.7 +to these disks are compressed and stored in memory itself. These disks allow 1.8 +very fast I/O and compression provides good amounts of memory savings. 1.9 + 1.10 +It has several use cases, for example: /tmp storage, use as swap disks and 1.11 +maybe many more. 1.12 + 1.13 +See Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt for more information.