From owner-freebsd-fs Sat Mar 14 06:02:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA09858 for freebsd-fs-outgoing; Sat, 14 Mar 1998 06:02:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (root@mail.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA09853 for ; Sat, 14 Mar 1998 06:02:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de) Received: from panke.panke.de (anonymous219.ppp.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.219]) by mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (8.8.6/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA13038; Sat, 14 Mar 1998 15:00:15 +0100 (MET) Received: (from wosch@localhost) by panke.panke.de (8.8.5/8.6.12) id NAA00511; Sat, 14 Mar 1998 13:06:23 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19980314130621.53891@panke.de> Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 13:06:21 +0100 From: Wolfram Schneider To: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis Cc: fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/locate/locate concatdb.sh locate.rc mklocatedb.sh updatedb.sh References: <199803081609.IAA00208@freefall.freebsd.org> <199803082028.RAA01287@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.79 In-Reply-To: <199803082028.RAA01287@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br>; from Joao Carlos Mendes Luis on Sun, Mar 08, 1998 at 05:28:25PM -0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 http://www.freebsd.org/~wosch/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message