From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965089AbVHZPtx (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Aug 2005 11:49:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965090AbVHZPtx (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Aug 2005 11:49:53 -0400 Received: from mail-in-03.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.43]:9963 "EHLO mail-in-03.arcor-online.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965089AbVHZPtw (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Aug 2005 11:49:52 -0400 From: Bodo Eggert Subject: Re: Initramfs and TMPFS! To: Erik Mouw , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, robotti@godmail.com Reply-To: 7eggert@gmx.de Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 17:49:36 +0200 References: <4Fuuy-6df-11@gated-at.bofh.it> <4FJMZ-1YX-17@gated-at.bofh.it> User-Agent: KNode/0.7.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit Message-Id: X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner-Information: See www.mailscanner.info for information X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner-From: harvested.in.lkml@posting.7eggert.dyndns.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Erik Mouw wrote: > On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 02:15:13PM -0400, robotti@godmail.com wrote: >> For one, if you do "dd if=/dev/zero of=foo" on a ramfs the system >> will lock up. > > "Doctor, it hurts when I do this!" "Well, then don't do that." > You found a nice case of "Unix, rope, foot". It's a case of going into the mountains wearing sandals and carrying the mountain boots in your backpack knowing you should wear them (at least if you read the hidden documentation. If you can leave the sandals at home, you should do that (they are of no use there), but the patch from this(?) thread will just make you change shoes after leaving the house and carry the sandals in the backpack, which could easily be done in userspace (provided you've enough RAM). The real patch would teach how to tie the bootstraps of tmpfs before leaving the house. -- Ich danke GMX dafür, die Verwendung meiner Adressen mittels per SPF verbreiteten Lügen zu sabotieren.