Re: New shmfs and Debian
Hi,
I think this should put the shm filesystem thread to rest:
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From: bert hubert <ahu@ds9a.nl>
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Subject: Re: Shmem filesystem? DevFS? Why.
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On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 12:53:25AM -0400, Byron Stanoszek wrote:
> Was looking over the 2.3.99 differences (versus 2.3.40) and came across a few
> people having to create a /var/shm in order to do anything shared-memory. Why
> do we need a increasing number of virtual filesystems these days to please the
> kernel? Whatever happened to just having good old /proc and kernel-level
We soon won't anymore - Al Viros 'single' mount option allows the kernel to
work an 'unmounted' filesystem.
Regards,
bert hubert.
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