Re: Memory leak in the ramfs file system

Amit D Chaudhary (amit@muppetlabs.com)
Fri, 30 Mar 2001 09:29:18 -0800


Hi,

Thanks for the reply.

So the question next would be whether ramfs will include features to make it
viable or stay with less features with the aim of keeping it simple.

Today, plan to check the 2-4.2-ac2x series to see if they fix this.

Regards
Amit

Jeff Garzik wrote:

> On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Amit D Chaudhary wrote:
>
>> >(none):/mnt/ramfs/root# df -h /mnt/ramfs/
>> >Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>> >ramfs 0 0 0 - /mnt/ramfs
>> I am not sure, how related this is, but we have / on ramfs and using rpm
>> to install(-iUvh) fails with the mesages, need 12K on /
>
>
> This is normal -- ramfs doesn't do filesystem accounting needed for 'df'.

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