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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...

> I'm trying out the new 2.4 kernel on my Potato box.  I upgrade
> modutils to the version currently in Woody (2.4.1).  Works real nice
> except for a slight problem I ran into.  I can't mount the System V IP
> shared memory on /dev/shm at bootup.  I get this error message:
>
> shmem fs invalid option
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock or none,
>        or too many mounted file systems
>
> I said YES to 'General setup'->'System V IPC' and NO to 'File
> systems'->'/dev file system support' when running 'make menuconfig'
>
> I added this line to /etc/fstab as the
> linux-2.4.0/Documentation/Changes says to:
>
> none  /dev/shm        shm     defaults                0  0

Well my workstation says:

shm     /var/shm        shm     defaults        0       0
^^^

Don't worry about /var/shm vs /dev/shm - it's just a mountpoint and will
work fine either way.

> I created a directory /dev/shm with permissions 755.  The 2.4 docs
> don't say to, but didn't say not to.  A mistake?

It won't matter - the permissions on /dev/shm will be changed to 1777 by
the kernel.

> The kernel boots and even though it can't mount this virtual filesystem,
> everything else seems to work--so far.

The shm filesystem is needed for stuff that uses shared memory segmets (ie
apache, samba, etc) to work.

> Can't believe how much faster the machine boots and runs compared to
> 2.2.18!!  Nice work Linus and all the other kernel developers!!

Yea, I noticed that too.  I see you haven't tried to push on it yet.
You'll get blown away by the results of some speed trials with dbench
compared to 2.2.x:)  But it seems a bit slow compared to 2.4.0-prerelease.
Maybe it's just me.

> Can someone tell me where I went wrong.  I tried searching the 'net
> for a clue to no avail.  I'm sure it's something stupidly simple I'm
> overlooking. Can anyone point it out?  Thanks for the help.

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