Drop the limit on number of inodes for /dev

Follow-up for 4c733d3046.

Finding a suitable limit that would fit any use cases out there is pretty hard
and since /dev is only writeable by root anyway, let's simply drop the limit.
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Franck Bui
2022-08-19 11:25:21 +02:00
committed by Franck Bui
parent 0b755a9809
commit 570fe6f12b
3 changed files with 11 additions and 5 deletions
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@@ -926,7 +926,7 @@ static int mount_private_dev(MountEntry *m) {
dev = strjoina(temporary_mount, "/dev");
(void) mkdir(dev, 0755);
r = mount_nofollow_verbose(LOG_DEBUG, "tmpfs", dev, "tmpfs", DEV_MOUNT_OPTIONS, "mode=755" TMPFS_LIMITS_DEV);
r = mount_nofollow_verbose(LOG_DEBUG, "tmpfs", dev, "tmpfs", DEV_MOUNT_OPTIONS, "mode=755" TMPFS_LIMITS_PRIVATE_DEV);
if (r < 0)
goto fail;
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@@ -581,7 +581,7 @@ int mount_all(const char *dest,
MOUNT_FATAL|MOUNT_APPLY_APIVFS_RO|MOUNT_MKDIR }, /* skipped if above was mounted */
{ "sysfs", "/sys", "sysfs", NULL, MS_NOSUID|MS_NOEXEC|MS_NODEV,
MOUNT_FATAL|MOUNT_MKDIR }, /* skipped if above was mounted */
{ "tmpfs", "/dev", "tmpfs", "mode=755" TMPFS_LIMITS_DEV, MS_NOSUID|MS_STRICTATIME,
{ "tmpfs", "/dev", "tmpfs", "mode=755" TMPFS_LIMITS_PRIVATE_DEV, MS_NOSUID|MS_STRICTATIME,
MOUNT_FATAL|MOUNT_MKDIR },
{ "tmpfs", "/dev/shm", "tmpfs", "mode=1777" NESTED_TMPFS_LIMITS, MS_NOSUID|MS_NODEV|MS_STRICTATIME,
MOUNT_FATAL|MOUNT_MKDIR },
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@@ -11,9 +11,15 @@
#include "errno-util.h"
#include "macro.h"
/* 4MB for contents of regular files, 1m inodes for directories, symbolic links and device nodes, using
* large storage array systems as a baseline */
#define TMPFS_LIMITS_DEV ",size=4m,nr_inodes=1m"
/* The limit used for /dev itself. 4MB should be enough since device nodes and symlinks don't
* consume any space and udev isn't supposed to create regular file either. There's no limit on the
* max number of inodes since such limit is hard to guess especially on large storage array
* systems. */
#define TMPFS_LIMITS_DEV ",size=4m"
/* The limit used for /dev in private namespaces. 4MB for contents of regular files. The number of
* inodes should be relatively low in private namespaces but for now use a 64k limit. */
#define TMPFS_LIMITS_PRIVATE_DEV ",size=4m,nr_inodes=64k"
/* Very little, if any use expected */
#define TMPFS_LIMITS_EMPTY_OR_ALMOST ",size=4m,nr_inodes=1k"