[systemd-devel] autofs and hugetlbfs on ARM

[Lennart Poettering]

On Fri, 01.07.11 16:06, Kok, Auke-jan H (auke-jan.h.kok at intel.com) wrote:

> 
> On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Lennart Poettering
> <lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
> > On Tue, 28.06.11 09:43, Michael Olbrich (m.olbrich at pengutronix.de) wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> more stuff from the embedded front. On ARM hugetlbfs is not supported. The
> >> result is rather confusing for the user:
> >> At first /dev/hugepages exists. If I run "ls /dev/hugepages",
> >> "mount[494]: mount: unknown filesystem type 'hugetlbfs'" is logged and
> >> ls says "ls: /dev/hugepages: No such device".
> >> Afterwards /dev/hugepages is gone.
> >
> > We probably shouldn't install those mount and automount units at all on
> > ARM. Would be happy to take a patch that ifdefs this out with automake
> > conditions on the archs that don't support this.
> 
> We don't have it enabled in MeeGo... not even for x86.

Do have just the file system disabled or hugepage support at all?

If you disabled just the fs, did you do that because it is an obsolete
interface? Or simply because it is primarily relevant for huge databases
and people presumably don't run those on Meego? ;-)

Lennart

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