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Re: help: 2.4.0 kernel and /dev/shm



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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...

> To quote Phil Brutsche <pbrutsch@tux.creighton.edu>,
> # Don't worry about /var/shm vs /dev/shm - it's just a mountpoint and
> # will work fine either way.
>
> Just out of curiosity, what does a 'shm' filesystem accomplish? I peek
> through what kernel docs I'm familiar with didn't explain much :( I
> don't even know what it's *supposed* to do :)

Without it stuff that uses shared memory segments (like apache and samba)
won't work.  I don't recall why it's needed.  If you search google for
"linux shmfs" you'll find some pages that may answer that question.

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