Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 22:18:22 +0200 (CEST) From: Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@neomedia.it> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: Ceri <ceri@techsupport.co.uk>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Good practice for /tmp Message-ID: <999807502.3b97da0e9af9f@webmail.neomedia.it>
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> An mfs is supposedly backed by swap. So if swap is on mfs, what's > backing the mfs? Is the inverse of the dual the dual of the inverse? > Where's the tylenol? Hmm, the dual of a dual is isomorphic to the original space. :-) > Anyway, I agree with you. Putting swap on mfs or md seems sort of > pointless. If the goal is to prevent people from reading sensitive > information left on swap if the hardware is compromised - which is > something security people do worry about - just configure the system > without any swap. I am probably missing something here. I seem to understand that even systems with a *large* amount of RAM [occasionally] make use of swap; in other words, the OS seems to be tuned to utilize swap, regardless of the amount of RAM present on the machine. Enlightenment welcome :-) -- Salvo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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