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From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: "Alexander E. Patrakov" <alexander@linuxfromscratch.org>,
	"Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@ums.usu.ru>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: tmpfs (documentation?) bug
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 12:36:35 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200511031236.35452.rob@landley.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0511031431550.23350@goblin.wat.veritas.com>

On Thursday 03 November 2005 08:41, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Rob Landley wrote:
> > So what's the new way to specify "this tmpfs mount should just be a
> > directory hierarchy with no data blocks" for those of us who _want_ the
> > old behavior?
>
> Sorry about that.  I guess you'll have to do the unaesthetic
>
> mount -t tmpfs -o nr_blocks=1 tmpfs /mountpoint
> echo full >/mountpoint/.full

Hmmm...  I suppose as long as I have the sucker mounted "noexec" I can live 
with that.

Rob

  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-03 18:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-02  5:00 tmpfs (documentation?) bug Alexander E. Patrakov
2005-11-02  5:02 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2005-11-02 22:58   ` Rob Landley
2005-11-03 14:41     ` Hugh Dickins
2005-11-03 18:36       ` Rob Landley [this message]
2005-11-02 22:57 ` Rob Landley

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