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From: Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>
To: "David L. Parsley" <parsley@linuxjedi.org>
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Subject: Re: hundreds of mount --bind mountpoints?
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Date: 23 Apr 2001 13:43:27 +0200
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Hi David,

On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, David L. Parsley wrote:
> I'm still working on a packaging system for diskless
> (quasi-embedded) devices.  The root filesystem is all tmpfs, and I
> attach packages inside it.  Since symlinks in a tmpfs filesystem
> cost 4k each (ouch!), I'm considering using mount --bind for
> everything.

What about fixing tmpfs instead?

Greetings
		Christoph


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