faq addition: working with mfs disks?

2014-01-26 Thread Илья Шипицин
hello, what do you think of adding a faq item which will give example how /tmp (or any other write intensive temp disk partition) can be stored in mfs drive? Ilya Shipitsin

Re: faq addition: working with mfs disks?

2014-01-26 Thread Nick Holland
On 01/26/14 11:31, éÌØÑ ûÉÐÉÃÉÎ wrote: hello, what do you think of adding a faq item which will give example how /tmp (or any other write intensive temp disk partition) can be stored in mfs drive? Ilya Shipitsin well... no. First, at this point, tmpfs is hopefully going to be replacing

Re: faq addition: working with mfs disks?

2014-01-26 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Nick Holland n...@holland-consulting.net wrote: First, at this point, tmpfs is hopefully going to be replacing mfs (see mount_tmpfs(8)). A word of caution: So far, if pushed hard enough, tmpfs is (1) losing files and (2) slower than actual storage on SSD. (I haven't tried with mfs.) --

Re: faq addition: working with mfs disks?

2014-01-26 Thread Marc Espie
On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 05:44:05PM +, Christian Weisgerber wrote: Nick Holland n...@holland-consulting.net wrote: First, at this point, tmpfs is hopefully going to be replacing mfs (see mount_tmpfs(8)). A word of caution: So far, if pushed hard enough, tmpfs is (1) losing files and

Re: faq addition: working with mfs disks?

2014-01-26 Thread Timo Myyrä
26.1.2014 18:31, Илья Шипицин kirjoitti: hello, what do you think of adding a faq item which will give example how /tmp (or any other write intensive temp disk partition) can be stored in mfs drive? Ilya Shipitsin Now that OpenBSD has tmpfs I'd use that instead of mfs. I just added

Re: faq addition: working with mfs disks?

2014-01-26 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Timo Myyrä contributed: Now that OpenBSD has tmpfs I'd use that instead of mfs. I just added following on my /etc/fstab: none /tmp tmpfs rw,nodev,nosuid,-s=1g,-m=1777 0 0 none /var/cache tmpfs rw,nodev,nosuid,-s=128m,-m=0755 0 0 none /var/run tmpfs