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From: Ceri <ceri@techsupport.co.uk>
To: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr>
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Subject: Re: Good practice for /tmp
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On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 06:30:15PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas said:
> From: Eli Dart <dart@nersc.gov>
> Subject: Re: Good practice for /tmp
> Date: Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 03:18:09PM -0700
> 
> > In reply to Craig Cowen <craig@allmaui.com> :
> > > Solaris mounts it's swap on /tmp while FBSD does not make this available.
> > > Why not use the Solaris way of doing things?
> >
> > 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.
> 
> Mount /tmp then as MFS with a limited size.  Works nicely, for me.

**boggle**

Swap mounted on an MFS /tmp ??

**shudder**

Ceri

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