Re: help: 2.4.0 kernel and /dev/shm

2001-01-11 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 10:20:20AM -0500, Bob Billson wrote: > > 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 toge

Re: help: 2.4.0 kernel and /dev/shm

2001-01-11 Thread Bob Billson
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 12:47:21AM -0600, Phil Brutsche wrote: > Well my workstation says: > > shm /var/shmshm defaults0 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 '

Re: help: 2.4.0 kernel and /dev/shm

2001-01-11 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > To quote Phil Brutsche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > # Don't worry about /var/shm vs /dev/shm - it's just a mountpoint and > # will work fine either way. > > Just out of curiosity, what does a 'shm

Re: help: 2.4.0 kernel and /dev/shm

2001-01-11 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Phil Brutsche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # Don't worry about /var/shm vs /dev/shm - it's just a mountpoint and will # work fine either way. Just out of curiosity, what does a 'shm' filesystem accomplish? I peek through what kernel docs I'm familiar with didn't explain much :( I don't even know

Re: help: 2.4.0 kernel and /dev/shm

2001-01-11 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

help: 2.4.0 kernel and /dev/shm

2001-01-11 Thread Bob Billson
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: