On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 19:22, David E. Fox wrote: > > > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format... > > Failing that, why the tmpfs voodoo and is there anything wrong with > > blowing it away and using plain old fashioned disk space for /tmp? > > Well, would Solaris recognize it as such? >
Sorry to confuse things... I'm using Mandrake, and its behavior seems to be copying Solaris behavior, which led to some tangential stories about Solaris. > I don't know what filesystem format tmpfs is, but I guess it might be > UFS. I've never used Solaris, so that's just a wild guess. > It's something in the Linux kernel, related to ramfs, but I can't find tmpfs in the kernel source. > You might consider using a (if available) small or extra > swap partition, detach it, and then format it appropriately and mount > it. When you're done, turn it into swap again. It's sort of like > sharing swap space between OSes but not exactly. > I've got buckets of swap (771M) from when I was mucking with a broken swsusp beta, so I don't think that effects things. I'm just going to have to come back and read all the tmpfs stuff when I'm not really tired and see if it makes sense then. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...
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