Re: Ramdisks and tmpfs problems

Sean Hunter (sean@dev.sportingbet.com)
Wed, 10 Apr 2002 11:45:21 +0100

On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 01:31:14PM -0200, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> On 10 April 2002 05:45, Sean Hunter wrote:
> > Wouldn't this be easier?
> >
> > mount -t tmpfs none /dev/shm
> > cp -axf /etc/* !$
> > mount --bind /dev/shm /etc
>
> /dev is for devices, why do you use it for mounting filesystems?

Normally yes, but the tmpfs provides posix shared memory semantics and thus
/dev/shm is the "normal" place to mount it. Don't blame me.

Sean
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