Bug#851492: [systemd] tmpfs size mount option not correct when expressed in %

[Michael Biebl]

Control: found -1 232-9
Control: severity -1 important

Am 15.01.2017 um 16:14 schrieb Pascal Dormeau:
> Package: systemd
> Version: 232-10
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear maintainer,
> 
> Systemd does not mount tmpfs file systems with the correct size when
> the size is expressed in % of physical RAM in /etc/fstab.
> 
> I guess it does not read at all the % character, and the size is read in
> bytes. size=5% or size=10% results into file systems with a 4 k
> size (man mount says "The size is given in bytes, and rounded up  to
> entire  pages").
> 
> When expressed in k, m, g, the size is correct.
> 
> 'mount -o remount' results in the correct size even if it is expressed
> in % in /etc/fstab


This was just confirmed on IRC and is apparently a regression introduced
by 232-9, 232-8 is confirmed to work fine.

Since it's a regression and having a full /tmp can have hard to diagnose
side-effects, I'm bumping the severity a little (inclined to make it RC).

Michael

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