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SubjectRe: support of older compilers
On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 09:43:57AM +0000, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Nov 2004, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 02:08:45PM -0800, Hua Zhong wrote:
> > > At least in 2.4.17 I couldn't loopback mount an (ext2) image from tmpfs and
> > > had to use ramfs. Has this been fixed?
>
> Yes, fixed in 2.4.22.
>
> > I believe it works now (2.4.27) but at least some external add-ons such as
> > Tux cannot serve pages on tmpfs but are OK on ramfs.
>
> Oh, I thought that was fixed at the same time in 2.4.22.
> Seems nobody complained it wasn't. Probably easily done,
> but really too late now to be adding features to 2.4.

I don't understand what causes the problem, otherwise I would have been
happy to propose a patch.

> The 2.6 tmpfs has no problem there, does it?

I don't know. I essentially use tux as a target for network stress testing,
and since 2.6 is a lot slower in this area, I have not done extensive tests.

Cheers,
Willy

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