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Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 01:53:37 +0300
From: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr>
To: Ceri <ceri@techsupport.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Good practice for /tmp
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On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 12:58:16PM +0100, Ceri wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 06:53:19AM -0400, Andrew J Caines said:
> 
> Andrew,
> 
> > > 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.
> At least I thought we were... :)

Actually, the other way round.  Having an MFS /tmp that utilizes a
part of VM (ram+swap) to make a temp fs that will be automatically
erased at reboot.

-giorgos


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