Your message dated Tue, 5 Jun 2012 21:13:14 +0100
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and subject line Re: #260302 mountvirtfs reports error when it tries to mount
unmountable tmpfs in 2.6.x kernel
has caused the Debian Bug report #260302,
regarding mountvirtfs reports error when it tries to mount unmountable tmpfs in
2.6.x kernel
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Package: initscripts
Version: 2.85-22
Severity: minor
The 2.6.x kernel always uses the tmpfs filesystem. If you
choose to disable tmpfs in the compilation of your own kernel,
actually only the user visible part is not built, but tmpfs is still used
internally (cp. Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt in the kernel
sources).
Due to this tmpfs shows up in /proc/filesystems and therefore mountvirtfs
tries to mount it (it looks with egrep if the filesystem type it tries to
mount is listed in /proc/filesystems). It fails and an error message is
displayed. I have not found a way to determine from userland whether
userland tmpfs support is compiled in or not (at least not if support for
/proc/config.gz is also not compiled in). The entry in /proc/filesystems
is the same. tmpfs support can not be compiled in as a module, therefore
checking for one is also not a solution.
This does not affect the precompiled kernels provided with Debian AFAICT,
as they seem to have userland tmpfs support compiled in.
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Version: 2.88dsf-13.3
We don't support booting without tmpfs enabled at this point, since
it's needed for /run, /run/shm, udev (devtmpfs, /run/udev), etc.
Closing since disabling will result in a broken system, and we don't
want to permit this.
Regards,
Roger
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