Re: Update - Ramdisks and tmpfs problems

[Sean Hunter <sean@dev.sportingbet.com>]

Just a data point:  I have been using multiple tmpfs bind mounts for some time
on smp without this problem.

none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777,size=256M)
/dev/shm on /tmp type none (rw,bind)
/dev/shm on /usr/tmp type none (rw,bind)

Never had a reboot fail for this reason.

Sean


On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 10:23:43AM -0400, Geoffrey Gallaway wrote:
> I finally found the problem, which appears to be a combination of things:
> 
> Multiple tmpfs mounts and SMP.
> 
> I am using a Dual Intel PIII 1Ghz box. When I use a SMP kernel AND do
> multiple tmpfs mounts (mount --bind /dev/shm/etc /etc; mount --bind
> /dev/shm/var /var) the machine goes into a reset loop. HOWEVER, when I use a
> non-SMP kernel and still do multiple tmpfs mounts OR when I use a SMP kernel
> and do only one tmpfs mount, the machine boots fine. Every once in a while
> (1 out of 20 times?) the machine would boot fine with a SMP kernel and
> multiple tmpfs mounts. Is this a timing issue?
> 
> If I can help to nail down this (apparent) bug more, please let me know.
> 
> Thanks,
> Geoffeg
>