Hello Scott, On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Scott James Remnant <sc...@canonical.com>wrote:
> Actually, I believe you're mistaking tmpfs with ramfs here. Space is > not reserved for a tmpfs, it simply sets the maximum size to which the > tmpfs may grow. > > If a tmpfs is only using 5MB, then it will only consume 5MB of memory; > it's backed by the page cache, so there is little overhead for such > things as filesystem (in fact, there isn't one!) > I know that > > > /dev is not writable by ordinary users, there is no danger of users > filling this filesystem with other data. > > However there it is preferred that this filesystem "not become full", if > the udev daemon is unable to make device nodes, or maintain its > database, then system features such as hotplug fail to work and newly > connected devices are not available. > I tottaly agree with you > > It is for this reason that we choose not to limit the size of the > filesystem. > I think that you misunderstood me, I'm not suggesting to limit the size, I'm suggesting to allow people if they want, they can limit the size. Currently on ubuntu, I can do this on /dev/shm, /var/lock, /var/run, /lib/init/rw [1], but I can't on /dev The default behavior of my patch is to do nothing because the default contents of /etc/default/tmpfs on my ubuntu is to not limit size. So the patch only add support to allow people to choose the size, the patch is not imposing the size. IMHO I think that allowing people to choose the max size a good thing, but, anyway, the final decision is yours, and I will respect it. Thank you for your feedback [1] see the contents of /etc/init.d/mountkernfs.sh, /etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh, /etc/init.d/mtab.sh -- Iuri Diniz http://iuridiniz.com [Sou um agitador, não um advogado] http://blog.igdium.com [Linux on Limbo] -- udev init script should use partition size from /etc/default/tmpfs https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/317161 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
