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Date:      Thu, 23 Aug 2012 03:17:54 +0100
From:      RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /tmp filesystem full
Message-ID:  <20120823031754.0b52bed6@gumby.homeunix.com>
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On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:35:29 -0700
Michael Sierchio wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 3:29 PM, RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Sorry I misread the previous post which *was* referring to an md
> > device, but the rest is right.
> 
> Not really. ;-)  The one compelling reason to use an md filesystem for
> /tmp or /var is when you have no swap, and/or your root fs is
> read-only

 tmpfs and "swap" md devices don't actually need swap. I don't seen any
 advantage in your way of creating an md device for /tmp.

 



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