On Tuesday 01 November 2005 23:02, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.c currently says:
> >
> > If nr_blocks=0 (or size=0), blocks will not be limited in that instance;
> > if nr_inodes=0, inodes will not be limited.
> >
> > However, mounting a tmpfs with "mount -t tmpfs -o size=0 tmpfs
> > /root/tmpfs" results in a tmpfs where only zero-sized files can live.
> > So either this behaviour should be fixed to be in accordance with the
> > documentation, or the documentation should reflect the current behaviour.
>
> Please ignore, that applies to old kernels only, not to 2.6.14.
So what's the new way to specify "this tmpfs mount should just be a directory
hierarchy with no data blocks" for those of us who _want_ the old behavior?
Rob
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