[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] 1. to run tmpfs as a regular user, /servers/default-pager must be executable by that user. by default it seems to be set to read/write. $ sudo chmod ugo+x /servers/default-pager Then I get this error: tmpfs: /build/mbanck/hurd-20060825/build-tree/hurd/tmpfs/dir.c:62: diskfs_get_directs: Assertion `__builtin_offsetof (struct tmpfs_dirent, name) >= __builtin_offsetof (struct dirent, d_name)' failed. 2. i rearranged the struct tempfs_dirent in tmpfs.h to line up with the struct dirent. now the assert passes at line 62 of dir.c passes. struct tmpfs_dirent { struct tmpfs_dirent *next; struct disknode *dn; + char padding[3]; uint8_t namelen; char name[0]; }; now ls works on an empty directory. you can touch files, and run `ls' on them. mkdir, rmdir works too. fsysopts works df works 3. creating a symlink fails. old patch to get symlinks working: http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-hurd@gnu.org/msg11844.html --- node.c.orig 2005-07-24 09:56:39.000000000 -0400 +++ node.c 2005-07-24 09:55:46.000000000 -0400 @@ -330,6 +330,7 @@ create_symlink_hook (struct node *np, const char *target) { assert (np->dn->u.lnk == 0); + np->dn_stat.st_size = strlen (target); if (np->dn_stat.st_size > 0) { const size_t size = np->dn_stat.st_size + 1; @@ -337,6 +338,7 @@ if (np->dn->u.lnk == 0) return ENOSPC; memcpy (np->dn->u.lnk, target, size); + np->dn->type = DT_LNK; adjust_used (size); recompute_blocks (np); } @@ -380,8 +382,6 @@ error_t diskfs_truncate (struct node *np, off_t size) { - if (np->allocsize <= size) - return 0; if (np->dn->type == DT_LNK) { @@ -392,6 +392,9 @@ return 0; } + if (np->allocsize <= size) + return 0; + assert (np->dn->type == DT_REG); if (default_pager == MACH_PORT_NULL) now symlinks work. 4. can't write data to a file --- miscellaneous notes: `diskfs_disk_name` could be `NULL`, but it is `"swap"` using `default_pager_object_set_size (np->dn->u.reg.memobj, size);` to truncate and grow. why are our blocks 512? shouldn't it something else? or at least settable? or does [[libdiskfs]] demand this? `diskfs_get_filemap_pager_struct (struct node *np)` returns null. shouldn't it return `default_pager`?