Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 13:06:21 +0100 From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de> To: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis <jonny@coppe.ufrj.br> Cc: fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/locate/locate concatdb.sh locate.rc mklocatedb.sh updatedb.sh Message-ID: <19980314130621.53891@panke.de> In-Reply-To: <199803082028.RAA01287@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br>; from Joao Carlos Mendes Luis on Sun, Mar 08, 1998 at 05:28:25PM -0300 References: <199803081609.IAA00208@freefall.freebsd.org> <199803082028.RAA01287@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br>
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On 1998-03-08 17:28:25 -0300, Joao Carlos Mendes Luis wrote: > // Modified files: > // usr.bin/locate/locate concatdb.sh locate.rc mklocatedb.sh > // updatedb.sh > // Log: > // Change default temporary directory (TMPDIR) from /tmp to /var/tmp. > // > // Mosts users seems to have a larger /var/tmp partition > // than /tmp - IMHO silly but who cares? > > That's because /tmp is usually a mfs partition. Also, that's why > I would prefer using /tmp instead of /var/tmp for this kind of stuff. > Only once I had problems with /tmp size, but I just gave it more > memory and solved the problem. If we have a working memory file system I will revert this change. The main problem is that the process mount_mfs(8) will only grow and never shrink. -- Wolfram Schneider <wosch@freebsd.org> http://www.freebsd.org/~wosch/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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