Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750995AbVJ3OWf (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Oct 2005 09:22:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751042AbVJ3OWf (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Oct 2005 09:22:35 -0500 Received: from lakshmi.addtoit.com ([198.99.130.6]:14598 "EHLO lakshmi.solana.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750995AbVJ3OWe (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Oct 2005 09:22:34 -0500 Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 10:15:06 -0500 From: Jeff Dike To: jonathan@jonmasters.org Cc: Rob Landley , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: What's wrong with tmpfs? Message-ID: <20051030151506.GA3354@ccure.user-mode-linux.org> References: <200510300624.38794.rob@landley.net> <35fb2e590510300453q520a9ce7ua1d74d7790b3a6b8@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <35fb2e590510300453q520a9ce7ua1d74d7790b3a6b8@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 821 Lines: 21 On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 12:53:00PM +0000, Jon Masters wrote: > On 10/30/05, Rob Landley wrote: > > > If somebody needs a reproduction sequence, I'm happy to oblige. In theory > > "mount -t tmpfs /mnt /mnt" should do it, but if it was _that_ simple it > > wouldn't have shipped... > > I don't see this behaviour on a regular desktop box running 2.6.14. > Guess it's UML specific. Sorry, but wrong. IIRC, this triggers when you don't have CONFIG_TMPFS enabled. If you don't, you still get it, but you get a version that's only usable in-kernel. Jeff - 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/