From: Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>
To: desrt <desrt@desrt.ca>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: shmem_file_setup creating SYSV00000000 files in (ext3) root filesystem
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 13:50:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ovllpiurn6.fsf@sap.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1070682344.17941.6.camel@peloton.desrt.ca> (desrt@desrt.ca's message of "Fri, 05 Dec 2003 22:45:44 -0500")
Hi Ryan,
On Fri, 05 Dec 2003, desrt@desrt.ca wrote:
> the problem is caused by the fact that the checks that
> shmem_file_setup does to determine the location of the mountpoint of
> tmpfs fail to take into account the effect of pivot_root.
No, see below.
> and somehow as a result, this happens:
> peloton:/proc# grep deleted */maps
> 17923/maps:4201a000-4207a000 rw-s 00000000 00:04 21233690
> /SYSV00000000 (deleted)
> [many many many lines follow]
>
> if you have any advice or can confirm to me that this is actually a
> bug in the kernel, please reply. i'm not on the list.
It's not a bug. It is simply a display issue designed in this
way. These names are artificial names which were never linked to a real
directory entry. So they end up displayed in this way. But they are
not connected to your root filesystem.
Greetings
Christoph
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2003-12-06 3:45 shmem_file_setup creating SYSV00000000 files in (ext3) root filesystem desrt
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