Re: Does /var/shm still need to be mounted?

From: Thomas Graichen (news-list.linux.kernel@innominate.de)
Date: Tue May 30 2000 - 04:42:20 EST


Michael Riepe <michael@stud.uni-hannover.de> wrote:
> On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 06:08:40PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> [...]
>> *Sigh*... can someone *please* stop suggesting /var/shm? It's a
>> damaging and hideously bad prescedent, and regardless what you
>> suggest, people are going to follow what's in the docs.

> This simple patch fixes Documentation/Changes wrt. shmfs.

> ======= cut here =======
> --- linux-2.4.0-test1.orig/Documentation/Changes Mon May 29 14:43:02 2000
> +++ linux-2.4.0-test1/Documentation/Changes Mon May 29 14:43:16 2000
> @@ -72,13 +72,6 @@
> General Information
> ===================
>
> - To use System V shared memory, you have to mount the shm filesystem
> -somewhere. You can do that automatically by adding this line to /etc/fstab:
> -
> -none /var/shm shm defaults 0 0
> -
> -Remember to create the mountpoint directory; it does not have to be /var/shm.
> -
> <CTRL><ALT><DEL> now performs a cold reboot instead of a warm reboot
> for increased hardware compatibility. If you want a warm reboot and

so it does not need to be remountet at all now ???

t

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