Re: [PATCH] tmpfs.5: document size/blocks=0 and nr_inodes=0 <=> unlimited

[Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>]

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On 2023-08-12 21:04, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> * Alejandro Colomar <colomar.6.4.3@gmail.com>, 2023-08-12 20:08:
>>> Bitten by this again. Behaviour blames back to at least 2005 (so 
>>> probably original to shmem.c), documented upstream in tmpfs.txt.
> 
> (I've been bitten by this too!)
> 
>> This is a bit unclear to me.  I guess you refer to the Linux kernel as 
>> "upstream", but the Linux kernel repository doesn't have a tmpfs.txt 
>> file.  I recall that they moved their .txt docs to .rst, so would you 
>> please share the full link to the .txt file that you refer?  That way 
>> you can ask git(1) to show the history of that file even if it doesn't 
>> exist now.
> 
> You can ask git for history of tmpfs.txt even if you don't know the 
> exact location, although admittedly it's pretty slow:
> 
>     $ git log --oneline -1 '**/tmpfs.txt'
>     7e7cd458b810 docs: filesystems: convert tmpfs.txt to ReST
> 
>     $ git show --oneline --stat 7e7cd458b810
>     7e7cd458b810 docs: filesystems: convert tmpfs.txt to ReST
>      Documentation/filesystems/index.rst                |  1 +
>      Documentation/filesystems/{tmpfs.txt => tmpfs.rst} | 44 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
>      2 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

Interesting.  Thanks!

> 

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