Bug 472127 - RFE: make "tmpfs" available to anaconda as possible fs type
Summary: RFE: make "tmpfs" available to anaconda as possible fs type
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: python-blivet
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Martin Kolman
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: AnacondaStorage
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Reported: 2008-11-18 21:03 UTC by Jason Farrell
Modified: 2018-04-11 09:01 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

Fixed In Version: python-blivet-0.18.10-1
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2014-04-14 16:37:59 UTC
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Description Jason Farrell 2008-11-18 21:03:27 UTC
It is often desirable to have /tmp, /var/tmp, and other temporary file systems mounted on a "tmpfs" ramdisk rather than the actual disk, but presently this can't be setup in the anaconda installer, and /etc/fstab must still be edited post-install.

Comment 1 Matěj Cepl 2008-11-28 17:47:21 UTC
There is nothing to triage here.

Switching to ASSIGNED so that developers have responsibility to do whatever they want to do with it.

Comment 2 Paul Wouters 2009-01-28 04:11:50 UTC
Indeed, this would be nice to have. It now has to be done using firstboot.

as a side note, I wish we could also tmpfs mount /var/run, but a lot of
packages fail to deal with this and just assume "their" directory exist in
/var/run/

Comment 3 Sebastian Krämer 2011-05-25 11:04:19 UTC
This bug should be upped! I had /tmp as tmpfs in my fstab and the anaconda F15 install failed completely (until I managed to make that line ineffective) with:

An error occured mounting device tmpfs as /tmp: mount failed (-2, None). This is a fatal error and the install cannot continue.

Well, not mounting /tmp would have been ok too.. Also, not having /home mounted does work (/is supported).

Please, this is a real bug in anaconda and not just a "FutureFeature"! Or should this be filed as a new bug? Advice welcome.

@Paul: I think /var/run with tmpfs is supported now in F15..?

Comment 4 Sebastian Krämer 2011-05-25 11:14:43 UTC
I see now that this is the wrong bug to report my problem. About failure of /tmp as tmpfs see bug 683434.

Comment 5 Martin Kolman 2014-04-14 16:37:59 UTC
Implemented in the Fedora 20 timeframe.


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