Hi,
tmpfs (or shmfs or whatever name you like) is still different in official
series (2.4.3) and in ac series. Its a kick in the ass for multiboot,
as offcial 2.4.3 does not recognise 'tmpfs' in fstab:
shmfs /dev/shm tmpfs ...
Any reason, or is because it has been forgotten ?
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Linux werewolf 2.4.3 #2 SMP Fri Mar 30 15:42:05 CEST 2001 i686
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, [email protected] wrote:
> tmpfs (or shmfs or whatever name you like) is still different in
> official series (2.4.3) and in ac series. Its a kick in the ass for
> multiboot, as offcial 2.4.3 does not recognise 'tmpfs' in fstab:
>
> shmfs /dev/shm tmpfs ...
Use type shm. It works in both versions.
> Any reason, or is because it has been forgotten ?
Alan picked up the tmpfs extensions. Linus didn't.
Greetings
Christoph
In linux-kernel, [email protected] wrote:
: Hi,
:
: tmpfs (or shmfs or whatever name you like) is still different in official
: series (2.4.3) and in ac series. Its a kick in the ass for multiboot,
: as offcial 2.4.3 does not recognise 'tmpfs' in fstab:
:
: shmfs /dev/shm tmpfs ...
:
: Any reason, or is because it has been forgotten ?
There is no tmpfs in vanilla 2.4.3 kernel.
I use this start script to mount tmp/shmfs:
#!/bin/sh
[ -d /dev/shm ] || mkdir -p /dev/shm
shmfs_avail=$(grep -qci 'shmfs' /proc/filesystems || true)
tmpfs_avail=$(grep -qci 'tmpfs' /proc/filesystems || true)
devshm_mounted=$(grep -qci '/dev/shm' /proc/mounts || true)
[ $devshm_mounted = 0 ] || exit 0
if [ $shmfs_avail = 1 ]
then
echo -ne "Mounting shmfs: "
mount none /dev/shm -t shmfs && echo "ok."
exit 0
fi
if [ $tmpfs_avail = 1 ]
then
echo -ne "Mounting tmpfs: "
mount tmpfs /dev/shm -t tmpfs && echo "ok."
fi
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