Changeset cfdcaef7

Timestamp:

08/26/2003 07:05:12 PM (21 years ago)

Author:

Jeremy Utley <jeremy@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.0-rc1, 10.1, 10.1-rc1, 11.0, 11.0-rc1, 11.0-rc2, 11.0-rc3, 11.1, 11.1-rc1, 11.2, 11.2-rc1, 11.3, 11.3-rc1, 12.0, 12.0-rc1, 12.1, 12.1-rc1, 6.0, 6.1, 6.1.1, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.5-systemd, 7.6, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.7-systemd, 7.8, 7.8-systemd, 7.9, 7.9-systemd, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, arm, bdubbs/gcc13, ml-11.0, multilib, renodr/libudev-from-systemd, s6-init, trunk, v5_0, v5_1, v5_1_1, xry111/arm64, xry111/arm64-12.0, xry111/clfs-ng, xry111/lfs-next, xry111/loongarch, xry111/loongarch-12.0, xry111/loongarch-12.1, xry111/mips64el, xry111/pip3, xry111/rust-wip-20221008, xry111/update-glibc

Children:

69a7180b

Parents:

8a0d0eb2

Message:

Added tmpfs mount at /dev/shm - Bugzilla bug 562

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2679 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

Files:

• chapter01/changelog.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• chapter06/creatingdirs.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• chapter08/fstab.xml (modified) (2 diffs)
• chapter08/kernel-inst.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• index.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter01/changelog.xml

@@ -6 +6 @@
 
 <itemizedlist>
+
+<listitem><para>August 26, 2003 [jeremy] - Chapter 06 -
+Creating Directories: Added the creation of the /dev/shm
+directory.</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>August 26, 2003 [jeremy] - Chapter 08 -
+Creating fstab: Added the mount of tmpfs filesystem to
+/dev/shm.</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>August 26, 2003 [jeremy] - Chapter 08 -
+Kernel Installation: Added a reminder to compile tmpfs
+support into the kernel.</para></listitem>
 
 <listitem><para>Upgraded to:

chapter06/creatingdirs.xml

@@ -7 +7 @@
 standard tree:</para>
  
-<para><screen><userinput>mkdir -p /{bin,boot,dev/pts,etc/opt,home,lib,mnt,proc} 
+<para><screen><userinput>mkdir -p /{bin,boot,dev/{pts,shm},etc/opt,home,lib,mnt,proc} 
 mkdir -p /{root,sbin,tmp,usr/local,var,opt}
 for dirname in /usr /usr/local

chapter08/fstab.xml

@@ -16 +16 @@
 /dev/*swap*    swap        swap       pri=1       0       0
 proc           /proc       proc       defaults    0       0
+shm            /dev/shm    tmpfs      defaults    0       0
 
 # End /etc/fstab
@@ -27 +28 @@
 <para>When adding a reiserfs partition, the <userinput>1 1</userinput> at 
 the end of the line should be replaced with <userinput>0 0</userinput>.</para>
+
+<para>A tmpfs mount is added at /dev/shm to comply with Posix shared memory
+requirements.  For more information, see the file 
+Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt in the kernel source tree.</para>
 
 <para>For more information on the various fields which are in the fstab

chapter08/kernel-inst.xml

@@ -31 +31 @@
 <filename class="directory">$LFS/usr/src/linux-&kernel-version;</filename>
 directory.</para>
+
+<para>It's important to note that to be compliant with Posix shared memory
+requirements, we must enable the tmpfs filesystem option, and mount a tmpfs
+filesystem at /dev/shm.</para>
 
 <para>Verify dependencies and create dependency information files:</para>

index.xml

@@ -5 +5 @@
 <!ENTITY book SYSTEM "book/book.xml">
 
-<!ENTITY version "20030819">
-<!ENTITY releasedate "August 19th, 2003">
+<!ENTITY version "20030826">
+<!ENTITY releasedate "August 26th, 2003">
 <!ENTITY nbsp " ">