I don't know why this thread got out of hand. But, as the OP I really had just two points. One was that, like myself, there may have been many others using tmpfs (due to the upbeat announcement of its inclusion). And that two, there was no indication of its removal in the "following -current" faq, as I (apparently incorrectly) thought it might be important if your system doesn't either successfully reboot or successfully mount all of your file systems after installing a new kernel, especially hampering those upgrading remotely.