Messages in this thread | | | Subject | 2.4.x-ac: No loop on tmpfs | Date | Mon, 29 Oct 2001 13:29:55 -0300 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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I don't know when this started (maybe it has been there forever...), but you can't losetup(8) a loop device from a file on a tmpfs. [Yes, I _know_ this is an idiotic thing to do. But uniformity is nice...]
Here (Red Hat 7.1 + new kernel + random patches), /tmp is tmpfs, and mkinitrd(8) won't work for this reason, so kernel upgrades fail.
Any fundamental reason for this behaviour, and should RH just use /var/tmp or something else? Or is this a simple oversight of some sort? -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand Usuario #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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