Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261348AbUKFJo1 (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Nov 2004 04:44:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261349AbUKFJo1 (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Nov 2004 04:44:27 -0500 Received: from bay-bridge.veritas.com ([143.127.3.10]:52419 "EHLO MTVMIME01.enterprise.veritas.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261348AbUKFJoY (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Nov 2004 04:44:24 -0500 Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2004 09:43:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Hugh Dickins X-X-Sender: hugh@localhost.localdomain To: Willy Tarreau cc: Hua Zhong , "'Grzegorz Kulewski'" , "'Linus Torvalds'" , "'Chris Wedgwood'" , "'Andries Brouwer'" , "'Adam Heath'" , "'Christoph Hellwig'" , "'Timothy Miller'" , "'Linux Kernel Mailing List'" Subject: Re: support of older compilers In-Reply-To: <20041106083824.GB783@alpha.home.local> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 847 Lines: 22 On Sat, 6 Nov 2004, Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 02:08:45PM -0800, Hua Zhong wrote: > > At least in 2.4.17 I couldn't loopback mount an (ext2) image from tmpfs and > > had to use ramfs. Has this been fixed? Yes, fixed in 2.4.22. > I believe it works now (2.4.27) but at least some external add-ons such as > Tux cannot serve pages on tmpfs but are OK on ramfs. Oh, I thought that was fixed at the same time in 2.4.22. Seems nobody complained it wasn't. Probably easily done, but really too late now to be adding features to 2.4. The 2.6 tmpfs has no problem there, does it? Hugh - 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/