severity 288043 important retitle 288043 kernel allow mounting non-working tmpfs tag 288043 sarge sid help upstream thanks On Jan 01, Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org> wrote: > It appears to be a problem with tmpfs in 2.6.10-rc1, maybe. Witness: > > root@nevyn:/home/drow# mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /mnt/spazmount > root@nevyn:/home/drow# ls /mnt/spazmount > ls: /mnt/spazmount: Not a directory > > Aha: > # CONFIG_TMPFS is not set > > I don't know why the tmpfs mount succeeds even though tmpfs is > disabled. tmpfs also appears in /proc/filesystems. That's really > nasty! It has something to do with the fact that tmpfs is used for > in-kernel filesystems. > > Should we be detecting this problem? Yes, but I have no clue about how to do it. /proc/filesystems does not work either: see #275874 for details. That bug log reports that it has been fixed in debian kernels, but apparently the patch has not been merged by Linus yet. -- ciao, Marco
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