Re: A translator for `/dev/shm'

2007-04-06 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 05:32:29PM +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 03:16:56PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > Last but not least, as I mentioned twice already, /hurd/ext2fs > > probably doesn't work for shm! (At least it didn't when I last tried > > it.) You need

Re: A translator for `/dev/shm'

2007-04-04 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 03:16:56PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > However, it is incorrect: The first programm to access it, will see the > original setup -- and thus fail. Thanks, correct. I noticed that when I had just sent the email. > Here is a variant that actually works: It als

Re: A translator for `/dev/shm'

2007-04-03 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 07:35:34PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote: > Fixing tmpfs shouldn't be so bad. Is anyone trying? A while back, someone (I think Sergio Lopez) analized it, and concluded that it's not easy to fix :-( Anyways, IIRC the problem was only with actually reading/writing data.

Re: A translator for `/dev/shm'

2007-04-03 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 01:52:09AM +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > It was reported that the `tmpfs' translator doesn't really work and is > thus not usable for being installed on `/dev/shm', so I propose the > following for the mean time: > > #v+ > $ sudo settrans -cpgf /dev/shm /bin/sh -c '

Re: A translator for `/dev/shm'

2007-04-02 Thread Barry deFreese
Roland McGrath wrote: Fixing tmpfs shouldn't be so bad. Is anyone trying? In the absence of tmpfs, what's wrong with a plain directory on the root filesystem? As far as I know Ben (bing) has tried without much success unfortunately. Thanks, Barry ___

Re: A translator for `/dev/shm'

2007-04-02 Thread Roland McGrath
Fixing tmpfs shouldn't be so bad. Is anyone trying? In the absence of tmpfs, what's wrong with a plain directory on the root filesystem? ___ Bug-hurd mailing list Bug-hurd@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd

A translator for `/dev/shm'

2007-04-02 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! It was reported that the `tmpfs' translator doesn't really work and is thus not usable for being installed on `/dev/shm', so I propose the following for the mean time: #v+ $ sudo settrans -cpgf /dev/shm /bin/sh -c 'settrans -cagf /var/cache/dev_shm.backend /hurd/storeio -T copy:zero 2M &&