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Date:      Fri, 14 Jan 2000 10:12:54 -0500 (EST)
From:      Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com>
To:        Trond Endrestol <trond@ramstind.gtf.ol.no>
Cc:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, FreeBSD stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Making sure /var/tmp/vi.recover exists during reboot 
Message-ID:  <14463.15606.393166.953233@kci.kciLink.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001141055310.19541-100000@ramstind.gtf.ol.no>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001141147160.75119-100000@ady.warpnet.ro> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001141055310.19541-100000@ramstind.gtf.ol.no>

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>>>>> "TE" == Trond Endrestol <trond@ramstind.gtf.ol.no> writes:

TE> I chose to use MFS for /tmp and symlinking /var/tmp and /usr/tmp to
TE> /tmp for sake of speed.

TE> No disk activity is involved when the temporary files on the MFS are
TE> in use. (This slightly false if the MFS is paged out or swapped out
TE> completely.)

If vi.recover is not going to survive a reboot, why bother having it
at all?  That's is sole purpose for existing.  If you don't like the
warning, just delete the recovery procedure rather than creating the
directory.  It does no good for you to try to recover something that
will never be there.

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