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From: Blaisorblade <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
To: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>, Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] Fun little detail about /dev/shm.
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 17:35:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200511291735.38924.blaisorblade@yahoo.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y837ybd5.fsf@amaterasu.srvr.nix>

On Tuesday 29 November 2005 11:52, Nix wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Rob Landley prattled cheerily:
> > If you're using udev, then /dev is tmpfs.  So /dev/shm is trivially
> > tmpfs.

> True enough;
configurable on Gentoo - you can now specify a full mount line in /etc/fstab, 
and before you had an option for ramfs.

> but some people mount /dev with a size of 0. (Admittedly if 
> they don't want to break POSIX shm they'd better damn well mount *another*
> tmpfs on /dev/shm with a saner size limit...)

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2005-11-29 16:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-28 13:44 [uml-devel] Fun little detail about /dev/shm Rob Landley
2005-11-29 10:52 ` Nix
2005-11-29 12:13   ` Rob Landley
2005-11-29 16:35   ` Blaisorblade [this message]

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