[arch-general] tmpfs

[Xavier Chantry]

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
>
> This is definitely NOT SAFE!
>
> If you don't have /dev/shm, POSIX shared memory will use the same tmpfs
> filesystem as /dev, which is currently limited to 10MB - POSIX shared
> memory blocks might be much larger.
>
> As for removing /dev/pts, I was tempted to tell you to do it, as it's SO
> funny what happens: No pseudo TTYs are available anymore. This will
> effectively prevent ssh logins, screen, any X terminal and probably many
> more applications from allocating a TTY, so the only way to get a shell
> is to login via a real TTY (console).
>
> I am curious, why would you want to remove these? I am glad thouh that
> you asked BEFORE killing your system instead of after.
>
>

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