tmpfs size option not working

[Julien MARBACH]

On Thu, 2006-05-01 at 10:58 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Thursday 05 January 2006 10:15, Julien MARBACH wrote:
> > But I find confusing that the "tmpfs" name is sometimes used to meen
> > ramfs and sometimes for tmpfs itself. For example when I do a $
> > cat /proc/filesystems (wich tells me what fs are supported by my kernel)
> > tmpfs is listed wether CONFIG_SHMEM is set or not in my kernel config.
> > So when CONFIG_SHMEM is not set tmpfs stand for ramfs, and when
> > CONFIG_SHMEM is set, tmpfs stands for _real_ tmpfs.
> > This could be confusing!
> 
> that is weird ... it's been my experience that if you have tmpfs disabled in 
> the kernel, then tmpfs wont show up ... in fact, we have code in the Gentoo 
> init system to handle this case because when we assumed tmpfs existed, it 
> broke a few users' boxes ...
> 
> what kernel version are you using ?
It's a 2.6.12-rc3
> -mike
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