From: Rob L. <ro...@la...> - 2005-11-28 13:44:23
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If you're using udev, then /dev is tmpfs. So /dev/shm is trivially tmpfs. :P Rob -- Steve Ballmer: Innovation! Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. |
From: Nix <ni...@es...> - 2005-11-29 10:52:55
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On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Rob Landley prattled cheerily: > If you're using udev, then /dev is tmpfs. So /dev/shm is trivially tmpfs. True enough; but some people mount /dev with a size of 0. (Admittedly if they don't want to break POSIX shm they'd better damn well mount *another* tmpfs on /dev/shm with a saner size limit...) -- `Y'know, London's nice at this time of year. If you like your cities freezing cold and full of surly gits.' --- David Damerell |
From: Rob L. <ro...@la...> - 2005-11-29 12:14:01
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On Tuesday 29 November 2005 04:52, Nix wrote: > On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Rob Landley prattled cheerily: > > If you're using udev, then /dev is tmpfs. So /dev/shm is trivially > > tmpfs. > > True enough; but some people mount /dev with a size of 0. That stopped working in 2.6.14. Now size=0 specifies no size limit. (Yeah, I'm annoyed about it too. I complained.) Thread starts here: http://seclists.org/lists/linux-kernel/2005/Nov/0387.html > (Admittedly if > they don't want to break POSIX shm they'd better damn well mount *another* > tmpfs on /dev/shm with a saner size limit...) In the patch I sent the error message was changed to say which directory it was upset about, but it should probably also hint that you can set TMPDIR to override this... Rob -- Steve Ballmer: Innovation! Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. |
From: Blaisorblade <bla...@ya...> - 2005-11-29 16:42:48
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On Tuesday 29 November 2005 11:52, Nix wrote: > On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Rob Landley prattled cheerily: > > If you're using udev, then /dev is tmpfs. So /dev/shm is trivially > > tmpfs. > True enough; configurable on Gentoo - you can now specify a full mount line in /etc/fstab, and before you had an option for ramfs. > but some people mount /dev with a size of 0. (Admittedly if > they don't want to break POSIX shm they'd better damn well mount *another* > tmpfs on /dev/shm with a saner size limit...) -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's "Doh!". Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID "PaoloGiarrusso", ICQ 215621894) http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade ___________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger: chiamate gratuite in tutto il mondo http://it.messenger.yahoo.com |