From: Ishan Oshadi Jayawardena <ioshadi@sltnet.lk>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: akpm@zip.com.au
Subject: Re: losetuping files in tmpfs fails?
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 12:47:14 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C35F8B2.98763627@sltnet.lk> (raw)
Greetings.
Andrew Morton wrote:
> Yup, tmpfs doesn't provide some of the facilities which the
<snip>
> It's not obvious that there's a burning need to support loop-on-tmpfs
> though, is there?
No, there isn't. I noticed this myself a few months back, but didn't
complain because, well, the purpose of tmpfs is to provide support for
POSIX shared memory, right? (At least according to Configure.help).
{If,/ Because} tmpfs does that correctly, it's not broken.
The only app I've encountered that breaks with this is mkinitrd and
associates, but it should at least attempt to fallback to the user's
home directory IMHO (without complaining "you're all out of loop
devices" - an old Redhat mkinitrd).
Cheerio!
- ioj
next reply other threads:[~2002-01-04 6:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-04 18:47 Ishan Oshadi Jayawardena [this message]
2002-01-05 23:18 ` losetuping files in tmpfs fails? H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-14 12:43 ` tmpfs accounting (was: losetuping files in tmpfs fails?) Christoph Rohland
2002-01-14 15:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-01-05 21:51 losetuping files in tmpfs fails? Frédéric L. W. Meunier
2002-01-05 23:20 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-06 0:15 ` Guest section DW
2001-12-30 12:39 Andy Gaynor
2002-01-03 23:10 ` Andrew Morton
2002-01-03 23:42 ` David Golden
2002-01-03 23:42 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-01-04 10:38 ` Andy Gaynor
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