Re: [Ltsp-discuss] /tmp on ramdisk?

2010-11-29 Thread David Burgess
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Jeff Siddall wrote: >> /tmp is always cleared on a reboot, even if it's in persistent >> storage, so a ramdisk has no disadvantage in this regard. > > Ummm... not in Red Hat-like systems.  I have files dating back to 2007 > in my /tmp! You may want to look into th

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] /tmp on ramdisk?

2010-11-05 Thread James
On Saturday 06 November 2010 01:16:58 ltsp-discuss- requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: > >> With RAM as cheap as it is that is not a tough or expensive thing to do, > >> but does losing everything in /tmp on a reboot cause any problems? > > > > > > > > /tmp is always cleared on a reboot, even if

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] /tmp on ramdisk?

2010-11-05 Thread Xavier Brochard
Le vendredi 5 novembre 2010 18:04:32, David Burgess a écrit : > On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Xavier Brochard wrote: > > Le vendredi 5 novembre 2010 03:30:27, David Burgess a écrit : > >> none 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /var/tmp > >> none 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /var

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] /tmp on ramdisk?

2010-11-05 Thread David Burgess
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Xavier Brochard wrote: > Le vendredi 5 novembre 2010 03:30:27, David Burgess a écrit : >> none                  2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /var/tmp >> none                  2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /var/crash >> none                  2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /var/spool/cups >

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] /tmp on ramdisk?

2010-11-05 Thread Xavier Brochard
Le vendredi 5 novembre 2010 03:30:27, David Burgess a écrit : > none 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /var/tmp > none 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /var/crash > none 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /var/spool/cups > none 2.0G 564K 2.0G 1% /var/log Why do

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] /tmp on ramdisk?

2010-11-04 Thread Jeff Siddall
On 11/04/2010 10:30 PM, David Burgess wrote: > On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 7:43 PM, Jeff Siddall wrote: > >> With RAM as cheap as it is that is not a tough or expensive thing to do, >> but does losing everything in /tmp on a reboot cause any problems? > > /tmp is always cleared on a reboot, even if i

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] /tmp on ramdisk?

2010-11-04 Thread David Burgess
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 7:43 PM, Jeff Siddall wrote: > With RAM as cheap as it is that is not a tough or expensive thing to do, > but does losing everything in /tmp on a reboot cause any problems? /tmp is always cleared on a reboot, even if it's in persistent storage, so a ramdisk has no disadvan

[Ltsp-discuss] /tmp on ramdisk?

2010-11-04 Thread Jeff Siddall
Is there any downside to running /tmp on a ramdisk? I noticed someone recently posted a script which added this to the fstab tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,size=1000M,mode=1777 0 0 With RAM as cheap as it is that is not a tough or expensive thing to do, but does losing everything in /tmp on a