Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261367AbUKFLEw (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Nov 2004 06:04:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261368AbUKFLEw (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Nov 2004 06:04:52 -0500 Received: from willy.net1.nerim.net ([62.212.114.60]:5124 "EHLO willy.net1.nerim.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261367AbUKFLEu (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Nov 2004 06:04:50 -0500 Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2004 12:04:28 +0100 From: Willy Tarreau To: Hugh Dickins 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 Message-ID: <20041106110427.GA1260@alpha.home.local> References: <20041106083824.GB783@alpha.home.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1200 Lines: 31 On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 09:43:57AM +0000, Hugh Dickins wrote: > 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. I don't understand what causes the problem, otherwise I would have been happy to propose a patch. > The 2.6 tmpfs has no problem there, does it? I don't know. I essentially use tux as a target for network stress testing, and since 2.6 is a lot slower in this area, I have not done extensive tests. Cheers, Willy - 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/