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<azert>I was thinking about fun filesystems that would be idiosyncratic to the Hurd, I stumbled upon tmpfs and lazyfs in the wiki. Does anyone knows why they aren’t merged and why tmpfs needs root?
<azert>Like, what is the issue with tmpfs? The documentation doesn’t state it clearly
<azert> https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/translator/tmpfs.html
<azert>The discussion page mention only minor issues and (resolved?) bugs https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/translator/tmpfs/discussion.html
<janneke>ACTION has a working gdb, and most of all, a working static tar!
<janneke>thanks a lot flavioc!
<janneke>(for context, that's 64bit)