Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 12:43:12 +0400 (MSK) From: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru> To: Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /tmp: change default to mdmfs and/or tmpfs? Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1306101242500.48048@woozle.rinet.ru> In-Reply-To: <51B53C4C.3030007@freebsd.org> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1306091538490.48048@woozle.rinet.ru> <20130609124603.GA35681@icarus.home.lan> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1306091709350.48048@woozle.rinet.ru> <51B53C4C.3030007@freebsd.org>
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On Mon, 10 Jun 2013, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > > what do you think about stop using precious disk or even SSD resources > > > > for > > > > /tmp? > > > > > > > > For last several (well, maybe over 10?) years I constantly use md > > > > (swap-backed) > > > > for /tmp, usually 128M in size, which is enough for most of our server > > > > needs. > > > > Some require more, but none more than 512M. Regarding the options, we > > > > use > > > > tmpmfs_flags="-S -n -o async -b 4096 -f 512" > > > [...] > > I sometimes use virtual filesystems but there are cases when I am looking to > store HUGE amounts of trace data in /tmp and end up cursing and remounting a > real disk partition. Hmm, don't /var/tmp exist for such a task? -- Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] [ FreeBSD committer: marck@FreeBSD.org ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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