From: Sean Hunter <sean@dev.sportingbet.com>
To: Denis Vlasenko <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
Cc: Geoffrey Gallaway <geoffeg@sin.sloth.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Ramdisks and tmpfs problems
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 11:45:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020410114521.C4493@dev.sportingbet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020409144639.A14678@sin.sloth.org> <20020410084505.A4493@dev.sportingbet.com> <200204101028.g3AAS2X05866@Port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 01:31:14PM -0200, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> On 10 April 2002 05:45, Sean Hunter wrote:
> > Wouldn't this be easier?
> >
> > mount -t tmpfs none /dev/shm
> > cp -axf /etc/* !$
> > mount --bind /dev/shm /etc
>
> /dev is for devices, why do you use it for mounting filesystems?
Normally yes, but the tmpfs provides posix shared memory semantics and thus
/dev/shm is the "normal" place to mount it. Don't blame me.
Sean
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-10 10:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-09 18:46 Ramdisks and tmpfs problems Geoffrey Gallaway
2002-04-09 19:49 ` Andrew Morton
2002-04-09 21:18 ` Geoffrey Gallaway
2002-04-10 7:45 ` Sean Hunter
2002-04-10 15:31 ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-04-10 10:45 ` Sean Hunter [this message]
2002-04-10 11:52 ` Christoph Rohland
2002-04-10 14:49 ` Sean Hunter
2002-04-10 11:01 ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-04-10 14:23 ` Update - " Geoffrey Gallaway
2002-04-10 14:52 ` Sean Hunter
2002-04-10 15:01 ` Geoffrey Gallaway
2002-04-10 16:03 ` Sean Hunter
2002-04-11 11:03 ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-04-11 15:47 ` Christoph Rohland
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