Bug 178113

Summary:	[rc.conf] tmpmfs rc.conf setting ignored
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	Richard <rsitze>
Component:	conf	Assignee:	freebsd-bugs mailing list <bugs>
Status:	Open ---
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Richard 2013-04-24 19:00:00 UTC

The system is being booted from a MD (MemDisk), i.e. from a CD ISO image, where:
* rc.conf contains: tmpmfs="AUTO" or "YES"
* the root file system is read-only
* the root file system contains /tmp

In this situation a new readable /tmp is not created.
This works with BSD 7.4, but no longer in 9.1

The error is in /etc/rc.d/tmp, where a new function 'mount_tmpmfs' fails to mount the desired device because a test to see if /tmp is not already on a 'md' device fails.

The obvious solution is to remove the check - but I presume it was added for a reason.  So the "correct" solution is not so trivial - would need to check that '/tmp' was on the same device as '/' ?

Comment 1 Richard 2013-04-24 19:43:26 UTC

WORK AROUND:

1. Remove use of rc.conf :: tmpmfs
2. Add something like the following to fstab:
     md    /tmp    mfs    rw,-S,-s=32M    0    0

Comment 2 Eitan Adler freebsd_committer

2017-12-31 08:00:22 UTC

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