Re: tmpfs (documentation?) bug

[Alexander E. Patrakov]

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.

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Alexander E. Patrakov
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