/tmp on tmpfs with selinux enabled

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Fri May 6 15:25:44 UTC 2005


On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 09:59:47AM -0500, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
> Basically, I have /tmp mounted on small tmpfs file system (to keep it 
> separate from root partition, without need for allocating dedicated disc 
> space for it).  Now, root directory of anything mounted as tmpfs will be 

A non-selinux issue I ran into trying to do this: loopback devices can't (or
couldn't) be on tmpfs. Previously, this caused new kernel installs to fail,
but shouldn't with the new way of doing initrds -- but it still might cause
other surprises.


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