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Date:      Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:31:04 -0400
From:      "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com>
To:        Christopher Hilton <chris@vindaloo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /tmp on mfs
Message-ID:  <d7195cff0910201931l3b23b9e3sbde81d2bcd2c11c1@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <9B5D4ADA-E163-4AC5-B293-7C5FA7CE0DA5@vindaloo.com>
References:  <9B5D4ADA-E163-4AC5-B293-7C5FA7CE0DA5@vindaloo.com>

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2009/10/20 Christopher Hilton <chris@vindaloo.com>:
> Reading the list yesterday I came across a little controversy about swap
> backed /tmp filesystems. I've been using this in my /etc/rc.conf
>
> tmpmfs=3D"YES" =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0# Set to YES to always create an mf=
s /tmp, NO to
> never
> tmpsize=3D"1g" =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0# Size of mfs /tmp if created
> tmpmfs_flags=3D"-S -o async,noexec" =A0 =A0 =A0 # Extra mdmfs options for=
 the mfs
> /tmp

Not to butt in (and tangentially, anyway), but noexec on /tmp will cause
"make installworld" to fail.  Or at least, it did last time I tried it
(2005?).  If
you never build world, I guess this is completely unimportant.

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