Re: CONFIG_RAMFS in 2.4.19-pre7-ac2 ???

Christoph Hellwig
2002-04-23T12:01:32Z

On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 01:43:23PM +0200, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> > CONFIG_RAMFS is probably going away, but that doesn't mean ramfs is
> > going away. At least in Linux 2.5 ramfs will end up being required
> > core code.
>
> According to what I was told by a guy at #KernelNewbies, CONFIG_RAMFS
> isn't there in (menu|x)?config after -pre7, but in by default. problem is
> - it doesn't work

fs/Config.in (2.4.19-pre7):
define_bool CONFIG_RAMFS y

[root@sb root]# uname -a
Linux sb.bsdonline.org 2.4.19-pre7-rmap13 #1 SMP Mon Apr 22 22:04:13 CEST 2002 i686 unknown
[root@sb root]# mount -tramfs none /mnt/
[root@sb root]# cp ~/mcslock.h /mnt/
[root@sb root]# ls -l /mnt/
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1275 Apr 23 14:58 mcslock.h
[root@sb root]#