Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 15:20:15 +1000 (EST) From: proff@suburbia.net To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: on the subject of changes to -RELEASEs... Message-ID: <19970414052016.4609.qmail@suburbia.net> In-Reply-To: <19970413225633.GJ54491@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Apr 13, 97 10:56:33 pm"
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> As Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: > > > > > But you remember that shell here documents use (hidden) tempfiles, > > > > thus require a writable /tmp? > > > > > > Heh heh, I just knew there was a fly in the ointment here somewhere! ;-) > > > > > > > mfs, mfs ,mfs > > That's not an universal solution you can count on inside /etc/rc. > Using MFS or not using it is a policy decision. I've got machines > where i wanna make sure that /tmp is preserved across reboots. Yes, i > know that this is not the common policy, but establishing a script > that would effectively prevent /tmp being a real disk filesystem would > take away part of the freedom the local admin otherwise has. > > -- > cheers, J"org > > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE > Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) mount -t mfs /dev/swap /rc_tmp rc stuff umount /rc_tmp Cheers, Julian.
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