[lug] 2.4.x kernel question

[D. Stimits]

Dhruva Reddy wrote:
> 
> I was looking through the documentation for the 2.4.x
> kernel, and I remember reading something about the
> shared memory being reimplemented as a virtual file
> system.
> 
> I'm not much of a hacker, but this seems like it would
> be slower.  I always thought that file system access
> is very expensive.  Or is it just physical block
> device access (hard drive, CD, etc)?
> 
> What do you folks think?
> 
> Dhruva

Physical block devices are slow.