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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Mounting on /tmp
Keywords: /etc/mount /dev/hd2 /tmp
Message-ID: <3591@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 7 Oct 89 10:24:48 GMT
References: <959@eutrc3.urc.tue.nl>
Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam
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In article <959@eutrc3.urc.tue.nl> wsincc@eutrc3.urc.tue.nl (Wim van Dorst) writes:
>How come I can't mount a disk(partition) on /tmp, but can on any
>other empty directory I want? 

It is subtle.  The update program started from /etc/rc opens /tmp and
keeps it open forever.  This forces the inode to be in core all the time,
thus speeding up references to /tmp and making mounting impossible.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)