Re: khttpd and tmpfs don't get along?

Christoph Hellwig (hch@infradead.org)
Wed, 22 May 2002 09:54:40 +0100


On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 06:40:02PM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
> I've found that khttpd tends to oops when used with tmpfs.
> The oops tracebacks are not especially informative.
> So far, I've only verified this with ppc, but I should be
> able to verify it with x86 soon.

That's because it abuses do_generic_file_read. It' the same design mistake
that also makes loop fail on tmpfs - do_generic_file_read should never have
been exported from filemap.c..

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