From ec38bbbddab5e3fc23f2b53161f42ce8551bce80 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Roy Marples <roy@marples.name>
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:03:49 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] If mounting tmpfs fails, try ramfs. This is because buggy
 kernels always report tmpfs even when not present.

---
 sh/init.sh.Linux.in | 18 ++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sh/init.sh.Linux.in b/sh/init.sh.Linux.in
index 23be1952..d3a4715b 100644
--- a/sh/init.sh.Linux.in
+++ b/sh/init.sh.Linux.in
@@ -8,14 +8,19 @@
 # tmpfs and ramfs are easy, so force one or the other.
 mount_svcdir()
 {
+	# mount from fstab if we can
+	fstabinfo --mount "$RC_SVCDIR" && return 0
+
 	local fs= fsopts="-o rw,noexec,nodev,nosuid"
-	local devdir="rc-svcdir" x=
 	local svcsize=${rc_svcsize:-1024}
 
+	# Some buggy kernels report tmpfs even when not present :(
 	if grep -Eq "[[:space:]]+tmpfs$" /proc/filesystems; then
-		fs="tmpfs"
-		fsopts="$fsopts,mode=0755,size=${svcsize}k"
-	elif grep -Eq "[[:space:]]+ramfs$" /proc/filesystems; then
+		mount -n -t tmpfs $fsopts,mode=755,size=${svcsize}k \
+			rc-svcdir "$RC_SVCDIR" && return 0
+	fi
+	
+	if grep -Eq "[[:space:]]+ramfs$" /proc/filesystems; then
 		fs="ramfs"
 		# ramfs has no special options
 	elif [ -e /dev/ram0 ] \
@@ -32,10 +37,7 @@ mount_svcdir()
 		return 1
 	fi
 
-	# If we have no entry in fstab for $RC_SVCDIR, provide our own
-	if ! fstabinfo --mount "$RC_SVCDIR"; then
-		mount -n -t "$fs" $fsopts "$devdir" "$RC_SVCDIR"
-	fi
+	mount -n -t "$fs" $fsopts rc-svcdir "$RC_SVCDIR"
 }
 
 . "$RC_LIBEXECDIR"/sh/functions.sh