From owner-freebsd-small Wed Jan 26 14: 5:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64823154A4 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 14:05:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id IAA52622; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 08:35:15 +1030 (CST) Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 08:35:14 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Warner Losh Cc: "Jeffrey S. Sharp" , freebsd-small Subject: /var and /tmp (was: your mail) Message-ID: <20000127083514.Z44457@freebie.lemis.com> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <200001262202.PAA02815@harmony.village.org> WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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