Re: 2.1.43 curious pipe-entries in / (root)

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
30 Jun 1997 05:44:36 GMT

Followup to: <19970630022907Z999305-554+1335@vger.rutgers.edu>
By author: "Russell Coker - mailing lists account" <bofh@snoopy.virtual.net.au>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> I've run Linux for 4 years without having a need for such a thing and I
> can't imagine any reason for it being a mandatory feature now.
>

It isn't really a feature; it is more of an undesirable side effect of
the new dcache code...

-hpa

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