From owner-freebsd-security Tue Sep 4 15:18:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from fangg.lbl.gov (fangg.lbl.gov [128.3.1.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A07937B410 for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 15:18:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from usul.nersc.gov (usul [192.168.1.115]) by fangg.lbl.gov (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFFC41F53; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 15:18:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from usul.nersc.gov (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by usul.nersc.gov (Postfix) with ESMTP id B57312B; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 15:18:09 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Craig Cowen Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Good practice for /tmp In-Reply-To: Message from Craig Cowen of "Tue, 04 Sep 2001 14:57:48 PDT." <3B954E5C.7558CDE6@allmaui.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_-1536011101P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2001 15:18:09 -0700 From: Eli Dart Message-Id: <20010904221809.B57312B@usul.nersc.gov> Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --==_Exmh_-1536011101P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I don't know why FreeBSD doesn't do this (in other words, if this was a deliberate decision, I don't know what points were debated in coming to a decision), but I could see a problem where filling /tmp could run you out of swap. This is why I like /tmp on its own filesystem where it can't interfere with anything else....I find that the features of an mfs /tmp (high performance, self-cleaning, isolated from other filesystems) match how I like to run my world. --eli In reply to Craig Cowen : > Solaris mounts it's swap on /tmp while FBSD does not make this available. > Why not use the Solaris way of doing things? > > Eli Dart wrote: > > > In reply to Matt Dillon : > > > > > 'man tuning' (with a recent -stable). In it I talk about /tmp vs > > > /var/tmp and why it doesn't make sense to keep them separate any more . > > > And these days people generally do not rm -rf /tmp at boot either. > > > > Using an mfs /tmp has the side effect of clearing /tmp at boot. > > > > --eli > > > > > > > > -Matt > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature > > --==_Exmh_-1536011101P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: This is a comment. iD8DBQE7lVMhLTFEeF+CsrMRAutzAKC4BzUjej//EP8E9uijpojlUzfergCgxgij ds7qvcwUlv3pEcLSEp7Cb3A= =orEc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_-1536011101P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message