Re: 2.3.51-52.pre1, shm and mounting somewhere else than /var/shm...

From: H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
Date: Tue Mar 14 2000 - 18:30:30 EST


Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > /dev/shm would be much more appropriate. It should be possible to
> > mount on top of devfs just like any other filesystem, although devfs
> > of course needs to make the mount point appropriately.
>
> For SYS5 emulation it needs to work in chroot too - its a little
> more complicated

It is indeed; however, I still think /dev/shm would be the best
location, with /shm being a reasonable alternative.

I don't know what exact semantics you want inside the chroot, so I don't
have any suggestions.

        -hpa

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