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authorHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>2006-02-24 13:04:26 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-02-24 14:31:39 -0800
commitad329b1519c0091806046b0e49ab073ea590dc11 (patch)
tree37ba48803043629e4c10b03bd448da02faaefa9f
parent63d94e482df769f31e8b1097f06c3a3fba7bced4 (diff)
[PATCH] tmpfs: recommend remount for mpol
akpm points out that switching to a non-NUMA kernel could be irritating if mounting tmpfs fails on an mpol option: tmpfs.txt recommend remount. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt
index 8a155418c70..1773106976a 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt
@@ -92,6 +92,15 @@ NodeList format is a comma-separated list of decimal numbers and ranges,
a range being two hyphen-separated decimal numbers, the smallest and
largest node numbers in the range. For example, mpol=bind:0-3,5,7,9-15
+Note that trying to mount a tmpfs with an mpol option will fail if the
+running kernel does not support NUMA; and will fail if its nodelist
+specifies a node >= MAX_NUMNODES. If your system relies on that tmpfs
+being mounted, but from time to time runs a kernel built without NUMA
+capability (perhaps a safe recovery kernel), or configured to support
+fewer nodes, then it is advisable to omit the mpol option from automatic
+mount options. It can be added later, when the tmpfs is already mounted
+on MountPoint, by 'mount -o remount,mpol=Policy:NodeList MountPoint'.
+
To specify the initial root directory you can use the following mount
options: