On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Jill Rowling wrote:
well, on alot of solaris systems that i've worked with, /tmp was a
ramdisk, (makes things like pop servers, nameservers etc much faster), so
yes things would dissapear :)
> Yes, Ken was chatting to me offline about it.
> It definitely depends on the flavour of Unix (and local variations) as to
> what happens.
> I managed to embarrass myself (only so slightly and on another Unix) by
> copying something to /tmp and then rebooted... zappo!
> I then thought... is there any standard?
> On the RH Linux at work here, /tmp is just part of / so would not normally
> get cleared out except for the odd cron job.
> What happens if you set up a machine that dual boots solaris and Linux? This
> is probably why the FAQ says that the temp filesystems of the two os's are
> incompatible. However it can be done, albeit carefully.
>
> - Jill.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stuart Cooper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> By "swapspace mounted as /tmp" I think Jill is referring to a system where
> you have the same disk space available as both Unix file system space and
> swap
> space. Swap space contains memory information for processes and it doesn't
> make sense for any of it to be preserved across reboots as all the processes
> have died and restarted. Disk space you do want preserved across reboots,
> but many systems clean out /tmp on startup. This is one of those
> behaviours that can change from Linux to Linux, let alone Linux to
> commercial flavours of Unix.
>
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