[Nix-dev] Re: [Nix-commits] SVN commit: nix - 13908 - ludo - nixos/trunk/boot

[Michael Raskin]

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Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>>> Mount `/dev/shm' (shared memory support).
>>>  mount -t tmpfs -o "mode=0755" none /dev
>>> +mkdir -m 0777 /dev/shm
>>> +mount -t tmpfs -o "rw,nosuid,nodev" tmpfs /dev/shm
>>>  mkdir -m 0755 -p /dev/pts
>>>  mount -t devpts none /dev/pts
>> Why make it mandatory?
>
> It can't hurt, can it?

Yes it can. That is a "bash -e" script, and custom kernel may lack that
tmpfs functionality. You could as well mount it amongst other
filesystems (I have even added autocreate for that), to avoid
special-casing.
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