On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 12:47:21AM -0600, Phil Brutsche wrote: > Well my workstation says: > > shm /var/shm shm defaults 0 0 > ^^^
OK, tried it. Sort of works. I am still getting "shmem fs invalid option" and mount is still complaining. Once the system boots if I do 'mount', there is still no mounted /dev/shm. 'cat /proc/filesystems' shows shm is one of the filesystems the kernel knows about. If I do 'mount /dev/shm' manually, it works. Now I'm puzzled, but getting closer. I was looking at /etc/init.d/devpts.sh. In the 2.2.x kernel docs, recommends adding an appropriate line to /etc/fstab. However, Debian choose not to and does it in a boot script instead; not sure why. I am tempted to hack together a similar script for shm. > Don't worry about /var/shm vs /dev/shm - it's just a mountpoint and will > work fine either way. Which is apparently what is used to be. Looks like /dev/shm is the approved mount point. > > I created a directory /dev/shm with permissions 755. > > It won't matter - the permissions on /dev/shm will be changed to 1777 by > the kernel. Which it did when I manually mounted it. > > 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. Not yet. :-) I'll have to try dbench and see how it compares. > compared to 2.2.x:) But it seems a bit slow compared to 2.4.0-prerelease. > Maybe it's just me. *This* is *slow*?! :-) I didn't have chance to try the prerelease before Linus released the real version bob -- bob billson email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ham: kc2wz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux geek /) "Níl aon tinteán mar do thinteán féin." beekeeper -8|||} --Dorothy \) Athbhliain faoi Shéan agus faoi Shona Dhuit!