From: "Alexander E. Patrakov" <alexander@linuxfromscratch.org>
To: "Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@ums.usu.ru>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: tmpfs (documentation?) bug
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 10:02:20 +0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4368485C.3050505@linuxfromscratch.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <436847DD.5050504@ums.usu.ru>
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.c currently says:
>
> If nr_blocks=0 (or size=0), blocks will not be limited in that instance;
> if nr_inodes=0, inodes will not be limited.
>
> However, mounting a tmpfs with "mount -t tmpfs -o size=0 tmpfs
> /root/tmpfs" results in a tmpfs where only zero-sized files can live.
> So either this behaviour should be fixed to be in accordance with the
> documentation, or the documentation should reflect the current behaviour.
>
Please ignore, that applies to old kernels only, not to 2.6.14.
--
Alexander E. Patrakov
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-02 5:04 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 [this message]
2005-11-02 22:58 ` Rob Landley
2005-11-03 14:41 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-11-03 18:36 ` Rob Landley
2005-11-02 22:57 ` Rob Landley
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