Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 10:16:13 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>, Garance A Drosehn <gad@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf kern.post.mk Message-ID: <20050914171613.GQ793@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <20050914100957.L33820@fledge.watson.org> References: <20050911002229.51F4916A471@hub.freebsd.org> <432382BC.5080105@root.org> <200509110310.36423@harrymail> <43255152.3000609@freebsd.org> <20050912165518.GA94181@dragon.NUXI.org> <20050913125820.GA10663@FreeBSD.org> <F74CCD5E-AD4C-4343-9626-5F6460C4D6C6@xcllnt.net> <p06230916bf4d11bb5363@[128.113.24.47]> <20050914100957.L33820@fledge.watson.org>
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Robert Watson wrote this message on Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 10:17 +0100:
> In both of these cases, having an isolated /var meant that /tmp didn't
> fill, so new /tmp files could still be created. Today that would be the
> difference between being able to SSH into the machine or not, because SSH
> requires inodes and directories to be allocated by default when you log
> in.
Personally, this is why /tmp should be mfs:
tmpmfs="YES" # Set to YES to always create an mfs /tmp, NO to never
tmpsize="500m" # Size of mfs /tmp if created
I've run with mfs /tmp for a very long time.. I'm surprised we don't
enable this by default... even MacOSX does it (though /tmp isn't normally
available to the user through Finder)...
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