Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 30 Mar 2001 12:31:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 30 Mar 2001 12:31:29 -0500 Received: from bacchus.veritas.com ([204.177.156.37]:19907 "EHLO bacchus-int.veritas.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 30 Mar 2001 12:31:18 -0500 Message-ID: <3AC4C26E.7050406@muppetlabs.com> Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 09:29:18 -0800 From: Amit D Chaudhary User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0 i686; en-US; 0.7) Gecko/20010105 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Garzik CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Memory leak in the ramfs file system In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, Thanks for the reply. So the question next would be whether ramfs will include features to make it viable or stay with less features with the aim of keeping it simple. Today, plan to check the 2-4.2-ac2x series to see if they fix this. Regards Amit Jeff Garzik wrote: > On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Amit D Chaudhary wrote: > >> >(none):/mnt/ramfs/root# df -h /mnt/ramfs/ >> >Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on >> >ramfs 0 0 0 - /mnt/ramfs >> I am not sure, how related this is, but we have / on ramfs and using rpm >> to install(-iUvh) fails with the mesages, need 12K on / > > > This is normal -- ramfs doesn't do filesystem accounting needed for 'df'. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/