Re: Configuration system bug? : tmpfs listing in /proc/filesystems when TMPFS was not configured!?

[Chiaki <ishikawa@yk.rim.or.jp>]

Hugh Dickins wrote:

> On Sun, 7 Nov 2004, Chiaki wrote:
> 
>>Should not this line be ifdef'ed out???
>>That is, should we modify the line like this?
>>
>>#ifdef CONFIG_TMPFS
>>	error = register_filesystem(&tmpfs_fs_type);
>>#endif
> 
> 
> I'd be more inclined to register under a different
> name than "tmpfs" in the !CONFIG_TMPFS case.

Something like "tMpfs" might be a good idea to
show the strange setting :-)

> 
> But as I said in my earlier reply to you (which you should have
> received before you sent this?), it's been like this ever since
> 2.4.4 when "tmpfs" and CONFIG_TMPFS came into being, so I don't
> see why we need to change it now.

Thank you for your previous e-mail.
I didn't know it reached my computer since my mozilla e-mail
filtering mitakingly classified your kind response into
an unexpected folder. I searched after reading the above paragraph
and found your previous e-mail.

> The real 2.4.9 error is fixed by the patch below that I sent then:
> does that solve your problems?

YES!

With the original 2.6.9, the mount didn't complain at all, and
then I got bizarre behavir afterward and udev script and booting
stopped at that point.

But wih your patch, now mount fails.
So now it is a matter of fixing udev script to
take care of the case of failing tmpfs mounting.
I will re-open the debian bugzilla entry concerning this
so that Debian udev package and possibly an upstream package
can be fixed.



tmpfs mount failure example: (I had created /tmp/t-dir.)

duron:/home/ishikawa# mount -n -o size=1m,mode=0755 -t tmpfs none /tmp/t-dir
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on none,
        or too many mounted file systems
duron:/home/ishikawa#


> Hugh
> 
> --- 2.6.9/mm/shmem.c	2004-10-18 22:56:29.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux/mm/shmem.c	2004-11-06 21:04:41.743173040 +0000
> @@ -1904,6 +1904,8 @@ static int shmem_fill_super(struct super
>  		sbinfo->max_inodes = inodes;
>  		sbinfo->free_inodes = inodes;
>  	}
> +#else
> +	sb->s_flags |= MS_NOUSER;
>  #endif
>  
>  	sb->s_maxbytes = SHMEM_MAX_BYTES;
> 
> 
> 


Thank you very much!



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