From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] make distclean tries to delete dirs in tmpfs
Date: 9 May 2001 15:29:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9dcgc8$ora$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010509204434.Q754@nightmaster.csn.tu-chemnitz.de>
Followup to: <20010509204434.Q754@nightmaster.csn.tu-chemnitz.de>
By author: Ingo Oeser <ingo.oeser@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> make distclean deletes anything with size 0. This includes
> directories, while making the kernel in tmpfs or ramfs.
>
Wouldn't it be better to fix tmpfs/ramfs to report something sensible,
even if it's artificial? Perhaps reporting the cardinality of the
directory, if that happens to be easily available.
N.B.: X/KDE will not run on a ramfs, because it reports as a size-zero
filesystem in "df". Switching to tmpfs solved that for me.
-hpa
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-09 22:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-09 18:44 [PATCH] make distclean tries to delete dirs in tmpfs Ingo Oeser
2001-05-09 22:29 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2001-05-10 7:33 ` Ingo Oeser
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