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Re: mounting tmpfs (and sysfs) defaultly in sarge?



GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp> wrote:
> Tmpfs in Linux kernel 2.4, is formally known as shmfs (posix shared
> memory filesystem).  It's useful for memory-based filesystem like
> Solaris tmpfs.  However, if we support new Posix IPC like shm_open(3),
> shm_unlink(3), to make debian posix compliant (and like other
> distros), it should be mounted on /dev/shm.
[...]
>  - /dev/MAKEDEV should have /dev/shm in "std" entry.
>  - /etc/fstab should mount /dev/shm (tmpfs) in default.

> BTW, the coming Linux kernel 2.6 will support sysfs, replacement for
> procfs (/proc).  It's useful if we have /sys directory for kernel 2.6.
[...]

I would propose to handle this similarily to the devpts
filesystem i.e. by a init-script instead of cluttering fstab.
                    cu andreas



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