Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:13:33 -0700 From: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> To: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> Cc: Current FreeBSD <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Using TMPFS for /tmp and /var/run? Message-ID: <20120329201333.GI1709@albert.catwhisker.org> In-Reply-To: <4F74C0E5.6050102@zedat.fu-berlin.de> References: <4F746F1E.6090702@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> <4F74BCE8.2030802@vangyzen.net> <4F74C0E5.6050102@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
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--QHrz2k/ePFTn56xd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 10:07:01PM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote: > ... > Aren't MDMFS backed filesystems of static size? And haven't they to be > created first before they can be used? Using TMPFS seems toi be a more > convenient way to me - dynamical (?), using a fstab entry for convenience. One may create a swap-backed mfs; this is what I used to do for /tmp before I started using tmpfs. (See the "tmpmfs" line (and related lines) in /etc/defaults/rc.conf.) >... Peace, david --=20 David H. Wolfskill david@catwhisker.org Depriving a girl or boy of an opportunity for education is evil. See http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key. --QHrz2k/ePFTn56xd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk90wm0ACgkQmprOCmdXAD1+kgCfUrPc0Z3cFWxsDrqiZMs/AXTc PrcAn2ipg0sHL8VPwVfdaTC0XwmZNpbg =jyuA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --QHrz2k/ePFTn56xd--
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