>>> On 12/17/2014 at 10:16 AM, Michael MacIsaac <mike99...@gmail.com> wrote: 
> Rick,
> 
>> You might also consider TMPFS for /tmp. It's much faster if you don't
>> need huge /tmp capacity or persistence.
> At one point, we started to recommend this in "The Virtualization
> Cookbook". The reply was to avoid it because tmpfs costs you memory which
> is much more valuable on z than disk.

I would have to agree.  Making it a VDISK might make sense, however, in certain 
cases.


Mark Post

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