Messages in this thread |  | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] make distclean tries to delete dirs in tmpfs | Date | 9 May 2001 15:29:28 -0700 |
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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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