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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2014-07-23 01:25:01 +0200
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2014-07-23 02:02:07 +0200
commitdb17ae5c27c614731b849cc4acc6a2857060c771 (patch)
treee89aec004a15173222d8676329e562e397ce819e /gnu/system/file-systems.scm
parent2c071ce96e7e4049be3ae2eb958077566d3b4ea0 (diff)
system: Add /dev/shm.
* gnu/system/file-systems.scm (%shared-memory-file-system): New variable. (%base-file-systems): Add it. * doc/guix.texi (File Systems): Document it.
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diff --git a/gnu/system/file-systems.scm b/gnu/system/file-systems.scm
index 76460d95af..8700530a76 100644
--- a/gnu/system/file-systems.scm
+++ b/gnu/system/file-systems.scm
@@ -108,10 +108,22 @@
(create-mount-point? #t)
(options (string-append "gid=" (number->string %tty-gid) ",mode=620"))))
+(define %shared-memory-file-system
+ ;; Shared memory.
+ (file-system
+ (device "tmpfs")
+ (mount-point "/dev/shm")
+ (type "tmpfs")
+ (check? #f)
+ (flags '(no-suid no-dev))
+ (options "size=50%") ;TODO: make size configurable
+ (create-mount-point? #t)))
+
(define %base-file-systems
;; List of basic file systems to be mounted. Note that /proc and /sys are
;; currently mounted by the initrd.
(list %devtmpfs-file-system
- %pseudo-terminal-file-system))
+ %pseudo-terminal-file-system
+ %shared-memory-file-system))
;;; file-systems.scm ends here