On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 10:47:44PM -0500, Matthew R. Dempsky wrote:
> On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 11:40:32PM +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote:
> > I think you might be misunderstanding what ramfs does.
>
> And I think you might be as well.
>
> Ramfs and tmpfs are distinct filesystems, with the most signifi
On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 09:58:27PM -0400, Dave Witbrodt wrote:
> >I think you might be misunderstanding what ramfs does.
> >using ramfs doesn't put any additional restrictions on
> >the maximum size of the temp partition. You just have to
> >add whatever space would have been used for a tmp partit
On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 11:40:32PM +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote:
> I think you might be misunderstanding what ramfs does.
And I think you might be as well.
Ramfs and tmpfs are distinct filesystems, with the most significant
difference being that tmpfs can make use of swap space whereas ramfs
cann
During that time I remember reading that some programs that write to
CDs or DVDs were caching data in /tmp before burning. It seems like
using tmpfs for /tmp under that kind of scenario would be a real
problem. My old box would probably roll over and die, and my newer
one probably would if
On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 06:11:16PM -0400, Dave Witbrodt wrote:
> Please correct me if I'm wrong:
>
> About 2 years ago I started reading up about Linux when I was first
> decided whether to try it, and which distro to use. I took about a
> year before I finally installed Debian last May.
>
> D
Please correct me if I'm wrong:
About 2 years ago I started reading up about Linux when I was first
decided whether to try it, and which distro to use. I took about a
year before I finally installed Debian last May.
During that time I remember reading that some programs that write to
CDs or
On 04.05.06 00:50, Digby Tarvin wrote:
> What puzzles me is that this option is not better documented. The installer
> for my BSD system makes you explicitly decline during the install process
> if you don't want it.
It's not very common, although I think it should be...
> > The only problem is/w
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 06:05:37PM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote:
> Digby Tarvin on 04/05/06 02:40, wrote:
> >On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 06:25:08PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> >>On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 12:50:43AM +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote:
> >>>I have now adopted it for my Linux systems, and was p
Digby Tarvin on 04/05/06 02:40, wrote:
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 06:25:08PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 12:50:43AM +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote:
I have now adopted it for my Linux systems, and was pleasantly surprised
with the functionality provided. The 'on demand' a
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 06:25:08PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 12:50:43AM +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote:
> > I have now adopted it for my Linux systems, and was pleasantly surprised
> > with the functionality provided. The 'on demand' allocation makes it much
> > more
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 12:50:43AM +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote:
> On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 11:52:39AM +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
> > > Digby Tarvin wrote:
> > > > I am thinking of using a tmpfs for /tmp, and would be interested
> > > > to hear any thoughts that others have on this issue.
> >
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 11:52:39AM +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
> > Digby Tarvin wrote:
> > > I am thinking of using a tmpfs for /tmp, and would be interested
> > > to hear any thoughts that others have on this issue.
>
> On 28.04.06 20:41, Dennis Stosberg wrote:
> > I use tmpfs for /tmp o
> Digby Tarvin wrote:
> > I am thinking of using a tmpfs for /tmp, and would be interested
> > to hear any thoughts that others have on this issue.
On 28.04.06 20:41, Dennis Stosberg wrote:
> I use tmpfs for /tmp on all of my machines and have so far not found
> a good reason why I should not.
I
Digby Tarvin wrote:
> I am thinking of using a tmpfs for /tmp, and would be interested
> to hear any thoughts that others have on this issue.
I use tmpfs for /tmp on all of my machines and have so far not found
a good reason why I should not.
> Obviously it would mean that /tmp would be volatil
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