Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 08:19:52 -0600 From: Chris Csanady <ccsanady@friley585.res.iastate.edu> To: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de> Cc: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis <jonny@coppe.ufrj.br>, fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/locate/locate concatdb.sh locate.rc mklocatedb.sh updatedb.sh Message-ID: <199803141419.IAA06967@friley585.res.iastate.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 14 Mar 1998 13:06:21 %2B0100." <19980314130621.53891@panke.de>
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>On 1998-03-08 17:28:25 -0300, Joao Carlos Mendes Luis wrote: >> // Modified files: >> // usr.bin/locate/locate concatdb.sh locate.rc mklocatedb.sh >> // updatedb.sh >> // Log: >> // Change default temporary directory (TMPDIR) from /tmp to /var/tmp. >> // >> // Mosts users seems to have a larger /var/tmp partition >> // than /tmp - IMHO silly but who cares? >> >> That's because /tmp is usually a mfs partition. Also, that's why >> I would prefer using /tmp instead of /var/tmp for this kind of stuff. >> Only once I had problems with /tmp size, but I just gave it more >> memory and solved the problem. > >If we have a working memory file system I will revert this >change. The main problem is that the process mount_mfs(8) >will only grow and never shrink. Has anyone looked at NetBSD's md pseudo-device? It provides a generic memory disk which you can put an arbitrary file system onto. Seems to me that it would be better than using a hacked up ffs.. Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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