Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 18:30:15 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr> To: Eli Dart <dart@nersc.gov> Cc: Craig Cowen <craig@allmaui.com>, freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Good practice for /tmp Message-ID: <20010905183015.A824@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <20010904221809.B57312B@usul.nersc.gov>; from dart@nersc.gov on Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 03:18:09PM -0700 References: <craig@allmaui.com> <20010904221809.B57312B@usul.nersc.gov>
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From: Eli Dart <dart@nersc.gov> Subject: Re: Good practice for /tmp Date: Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 03:18:09PM -0700 > In reply to Craig Cowen <craig@allmaui.com> : > > Solaris mounts it's swap on /tmp while FBSD does not make this availabl= e. > > Why not use the Solaris way of doing things? > > I don't know why FreeBSD doesn't do this (in other words, if this was=20 > a deliberate decision, I don't know what points were debated in=20 > coming to a decision), but I could see a problem where filling /tmp=20 > could run you out of swap. Mount /tmp then as MFS with a limited size. Works nicely, for me. This is not very different from having to make a special partition of fixed size just to keep /tmp from filling /. There is an important difference, though. The size of the MFS /tmp is easy to change by modifying /etc/fstab it's a much better way to use this than create a fixed partition (which is admittedly much harder to resize). -giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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