Roy Marples <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Tue, 07 Nov 2006 07:13:53 +0000:
> On Tuesday 07 November 2006 03:23, Sven Köhler wrote: >> After reading all the concerns and doubt and things, i ask myself: >> >> why not keep in a tmpfs? >> >> Well, it can be swapped out too, and it isn't too much data anyway, is it? > > Only linux has a non specific tmpfs - ie it just uses what it needs. > For the BSD's it has something similar, but you have to specify either it's > size or it's maximum size so it's not as flexable. Getting a bit worried by comments so far. You ARE planning to keep the OPTION of keeping a tmpfs (or whatever) mounted svcdir, right (an option to keep it mounted that way after the boot level, is how I guess it'd work)? I'm using that now and hope to keep it. I went with the suggested size=2m (tmpfs). df says 184KB used, so that's quite big enough and then some, but on Linux the free space isn't actually allocated until it's no longer free space, so no matter. Are you saying the BSDs would allocate and therefore remove from further use the full 2MB, no way around it, even if only 148KB is actually used? -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
