Re: tmpfs

[Carl Fredrik Hammar]

Hi,

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 04:10:53AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>
> I've tried to use tmpfs for a /dev directory (10M size), and it seems to
> be not so stable: symlinks don't seem to be working for instance, and I
> couldn't create a file with some content.  Has somebody looked at such
> failures already?

I don't know anything about tmpfs, but I do know a thing or two about
symlinks.  Most likely symlinks don't work for whatever reason you can't
create a file with content: libdiskfs defaults to storing the target
filename as the content of the symlink file.  It could also fail later
if it can't set passive translators.

For more information, see:
http://www.bddebian.com:8888/~hurd-web/hurd/translator/short-circuiting/

Regards,
  Fredrik