On 2015-04-15 09:32:24 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Tue, Apr 14, 2015, at 23:18, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Can't disk caching be as fast as tmpfs (or almost)? > > Never subestimate the needs of a persistent filesystem to care for > metadata and data safety, unless it has an "eatmydata" mount option > or something to that effect.
Yes, such a mount option would be useful. Or alternatively tmpfs should be able to get some specific swap space on disk (this swap space would be used *only* for tmpfs, not for the main memory). -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
