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SubjectRe: Ramdisks and tmpfs problems
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Hi Sean,

On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Sean Hunter wrote:
>> /dev is for devices, why do you use it for mounting filesystems?
>
> Normally yes, but the tmpfs provides posix shared memory semantics
> and thus /dev/shm is the "normal" place to mount it. Don't blame
> me.

Yes, and he does not want to use it for POSIX shared mem, but as a
local filesystem. So he should mount it where he needs it and
definitely not misunse the posix mount for different things.

Greetings
Christoph


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