From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Organization: Boundaries Unlimited
To: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Subject: Re: What's wrong with tmpfs?
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 14:24:08 -0600
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On Sunday 30 October 2005 09:15, Jeff Dike wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 12:53:00PM +0000, Jon Masters wrote:
> > On 10/30/05, Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> 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.

Yup.  Not CONFIG_TEMPFS.  My bad.

Rob
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