On Tuesday 07 November 2006 10:50, Roy Marples wrote: > > 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? > > Which demonstrates that you don't know about tmpfs as you don't specify any > size for it - it just uses what it needs. > > And yes, the BSD's will use the full 2MB. > > Actually I forgot about the option allowing you todo this. It will be > supported in the next version, although the variable name specified > in /etc/conf.d/rc will change to match out existing RC_ names, the old one > will still work.
Actually, before I do that, let me attack this from another angle. What do you gain from keeping it mounted as a ramdisk? If the answer is performance, well you loose performance at start time as you've lost the deptree. So why would you want to keep it? -- Roy Marples <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/Linux/FreeBSD Developer (baselayout, networking) -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
