RE: [debian-user] Re: mountkernfs, mountvirtfs, and devpts.sh
Bill Moseley wrote:
>
> I'm not using tmpfs for anything that I know of. That's why I didn't
> enable it on my last kernel build. Do systems expect that tmpfs will
> be available? I see I've got it enabled on other machines
> but /dev/shm
> is empty. Why use the RAM if it's not needed.
It seems to be needed at boot time.
> [BTW -- can tmpfs get swapped to disk? That would seem to defeat the
> purpose, I guess.]
You betcha. One of the first problems I encountered with 2.6 was that
I run a large (3GB) swap partition and /tmp on tmpfs (I got tired of trying
to do Oracle installs and finding it didn't like the amount of virtual
memory _or_ temporary file space). I had to delete /etc/default/tmpfs to
get it to use _my_ tmpfs instead of /dev/shm (I kept finding both mounted,
and it seemed to be slowing down any attempt to access /tmp - that may have
just been my imagination). I'd really like to find a better way to force
tmpfs to use my own definition.
Thanks for bringing this up anyway. I've now removed mountkernfs and
devpts.sh
without any negative effects. Of course, it didn't _fix_ any of the
oddities
in my boot process, either :-)
--
derek
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