Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 10 Apr 2002 15:52:42 +0100 | From | Sean Hunter <> | Subject | Re: Update - Ramdisks and tmpfs problems |
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Just a data point: I have been using multiple tmpfs bind mounts for some time on smp without this problem.
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777,size=256M) /dev/shm on /tmp type none (rw,bind) /dev/shm on /usr/tmp type none (rw,bind)
Never had a reboot fail for this reason.
Sean
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 10:23:43AM -0400, Geoffrey Gallaway wrote: > I finally found the problem, which appears to be a combination of things: > > Multiple tmpfs mounts and SMP. > > I am using a Dual Intel PIII 1Ghz box. When I use a SMP kernel AND do > multiple tmpfs mounts (mount --bind /dev/shm/etc /etc; mount --bind > /dev/shm/var /var) the machine goes into a reset loop. HOWEVER, when I use a > non-SMP kernel and still do multiple tmpfs mounts OR when I use a SMP kernel > and do only one tmpfs mount, the machine boots fine. Every once in a while > (1 out of 20 times?) the machine would boot fine with a SMP kernel and > multiple tmpfs mounts. Is this a timing issue? > > If I can help to nail down this (apparent) bug more, please let me know. > > Thanks, > Geoffeg > - 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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