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From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Organization: Boundaries Unlimited
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Subject: Re: tmpfs (documentation?) bug
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 12:36:35 -0600
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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