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From: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
To: jonathan@jonmasters.org
Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: What's wrong with tmpfs?
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 10:15:06 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051030151506.GA3354@ccure.user-mode-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <35fb2e590510300453q520a9ce7ua1d74d7790b3a6b8@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 12:53:00PM +0000, Jon Masters wrote:
> On 10/30/05, Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> wrote:
> 
> > If somebody needs a reproduction sequence, I'm happy to oblige.  In theory
> > "mount -t tmpfs /mnt /mnt" should do it, but if it was _that_ simple it
> > wouldn't have shipped...
> 
> I don't see this behaviour on a regular desktop box running 2.6.14.
> Guess it's UML specific.

Sorry, but wrong.

IIRC, this triggers when you don't have CONFIG_TMPFS enabled.  If you don't,
you still get it, but you get a version that's only usable in-kernel.

				Jeff

  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-30 14:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-30 12:24 What's wrong with tmpfs? Rob Landley
2005-10-30 12:53 ` Jon Masters
2005-10-30 15:15   ` Jeff Dike [this message]
2005-10-30 20:24     ` Rob Landley
2005-11-08 17:58     ` Matt Mackall

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