From be851e7e531c13254a030aebfdc541c4fe81308a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eugene Syromyatnikov Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 04:01:11 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] keyrings.7: Minor clarification on where big_key payload is stored --- man7/keyrings.7 | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/man7/keyrings.7 b/man7/keyrings.7 index c15a273cb..2f452c629 100644 --- a/man7/keyrings.7 +++ b/man7/keyrings.7 @@ -149,7 +149,8 @@ key type, but it may hold a payload of up to 1 MiB in size. The data may be stored in the swap space rather than in kernel memory if the data size exceeds the overhead of storing the data in swap space (a tmpfs file is used, which requires filesystem structures -to be allocated in the kernel). +to be allocated in the kernel; the size of these determines size threshold +above which tmpfs storage method is used). This key type is useful for tasks such as holding Kerberos ticket caches. .PP There are more specialized key types available also,