On 12/13/2016 03:20 PM, David Howells wrote: > Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The payload data may be stored in a tmpfs filesystem, >> rather than in kernel memory, if the data size exceeds the >> overhead of storing the data in the filesystem. (Storing >> the data in a filesystem requires filesystem structures to >> be allocated in the kernel. The size of these structures >> determines the size threshold above which the tmpfs storage >> method is used.) Since Linux 4.8, the payload data is >> encrypted when stored in tmpfs, to prevent it being written >> unencrypted into swap space. > > "... thereby preventing it from being written unencrypted into the swapspace"?
Fixed. Thanks, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
