Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 08:35:14 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: "Jeffrey S. Sharp" <jss@subatomix.com>, freebsd-small <freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: /var and /tmp (was: your mail) Message-ID: <20000127083514.Z44457@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200001262202.PAA02815@harmony.village.org> References: <20000127082339.T44457@freebie.lemis.com> <3888D5CF.329989@achtung.com> <20000122145538.A390@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> <20000124122024.A4574@horus.co.jyu.fi> <20000125103358.U2643@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> <005f01bf66f4$05a499f0$0dea5e18@mmcable.com> <20000126075825.C42227@freebi <002201bf67c6$f76b4090$0dea5e18@mmcable.com> <20000127082339.T44457@freebie.lemis.com> <200001262202.PAA02815@harmony.village.org>
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On Wednesday, 26 January 2000 at 15:02:25 -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <20000127082339.T44457@freebie.lemis.com> Greg Lehey writes: > : At the best of time, putting /var and /tmp on separate file systems is > : of dubious advantage. These are not the best of times; one file > : system is plenty. > > No. That's not true with flash systems. With /var and /tmp being mfs > mounted they can be written to a lot w/o touching the flash cards. > The big advantage is that you get your logs/tmp files etc w/o needing > to hit flash. This is a huge win. I was advocating making them the same file system, not leaving /tmp on flash. Create one mfs, mount it on /var, and make /tmp a symlink to /var/tmp. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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