On 26-Sep-09, at 2:55 PM, Frank Middleton wrote:
On 09/26/09 12:11 PM, Toby Thain wrote:
Yes, but unless they fixed it recently (>=RHFC11), Linux doesn't
actually nuke /tmp, which seems to be mapped to disk. One side
effect is that (like MSWindows) AFAIK there isn't a native tmpfs,
...
Are you sure about that? My Linux systems do.
http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v2.6.31/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt
OK, so you can mount /dev/shm on /tmp and /var/tmp, but that's
not the default,
It has long been the default in Gentoo. This system in particular was
installed in 2004.
at least as of RHFC10. I have files in /tmp
going back to Feb 2008 :-). Evidently, quoting Wikipedia,
"tmpfs is supported by the Linux kernel from version 2.4 and up."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TMPFS, FC1 6 years ago. Solaris /tmp
has been a tmpfs since 1990...
The question wasn't "who was first".
--Toby
Now back to the thread...
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