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On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 7:17 PM, RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> wrote:

>  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.

Then you don't understand. ;-)  The advantage of my approach is
avoiding a kernel panic when writing to the tmpfs when you haven't
pre-allocated all the filesystem space at creation time.  If that
happens to matter to you...