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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 ]
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