Re: What's wrong with tmpfs?

[Jeff Dike]

On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 12:53:00PM +0000, Jon Masters wrote:
> On 10/30/05, Rob Landley <rob@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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
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