Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 07:48:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 07:48:41 -0400 Received: from smtpde02.sap-ag.de ([194.39.131.53]:48529 "EHLO smtpde02.sap-ag.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 07:48:40 -0400 From: Christoph Rohland To: Sean Hunter Cc: Denis Vlasenko , Geoffrey Gallaway , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Ramdisks and tmpfs problems In-Reply-To: <20020409144639.A14678@sin.sloth.org> <20020410084505.A4493@dev.sportingbet.com> <200204101028.g3AAS2X05866@Port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> <20020410114521.C4493@dev.sportingbet.com> Organisation: SAP LinuxLab Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 13:52:37 +0200 Message-ID: Lines: 16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) XEmacs/21.4 (Artificial Intelligence, i386-suse-linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SAP: out X-SAP: out X-SAP: out X-SAP: out Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Sean, On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Sean Hunter wrote: >> /dev is for devices, why do you use it for mounting filesystems? > > Normally yes, but the tmpfs provides posix shared memory semantics > and thus /dev/shm is the "normal" place to mount it. Don't blame > me. Yes, and he does not want to use it for POSIX shared mem, but as a local filesystem. So he should mount it where he needs it and definitely not misunse the posix mount for different things. Greetings Christoph - 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/