From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 6 12:29:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-94-248-46.mmcable.com [24.94.248.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CBA5337B403 for ; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 12:29:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 7657 invoked by uid 100); 6 Sep 2001 19:29:27 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15255.52887.739188.643002@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 14:29:27 -0500 To: Ceri Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Good practice for /tmp In-Reply-To: <19217935@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ceri types: > On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 06:53:19AM -0400, Andrew J Caines said: > > > Mind you, I suppose you could also run out of swap on disk as well > > Swap is disk, unless you swap to NFS or other storage. > Ah yeah, but we were talking about having swap on an MFS /tmp. Ugh. Double ugh. TRIPLE ugh. An mfs is supposedly backed by swap. So if swap is on mfs, what's backing the mfs? Is the inverse of the dual the dual of the inverse? Where's the tylenol? Anyway, I agree with you. Putting swap on mfs or md seems sort of pointless. If the goal is to prevent people from reading sensitive information left on swap if the hardware is compromised - which is something security people do worry about - just configure the system without any swap. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message