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SubjectRe: [PATCH] make distclean tries to delete dirs in tmpfs
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Followup to:  <20010509204434.Q754@nightmaster.csn.tu-chemnitz.de>
By author: Ingo Oeser <ingo.oeser@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> make distclean deletes anything with size 0. This includes
> directories, while making the kernel in tmpfs or ramfs.
>

Wouldn't it be better to fix tmpfs/ramfs to report something sensible,
even if it's artificial? Perhaps reporting the cardinality of the
directory, if that happens to be easily available.

N.B.: X/KDE will not run on a ramfs, because it reports as a size-zero
filesystem in "df". Switching to tmpfs solved that for me.

-hpa

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