On 3/20/2010 12:06 PM, Chuck McIntyre wrote: > On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Yves Dorfsman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Linux, if you split /tmp from the other filesystems, do you tend to make >> it >> ext2 since it's only for temporary files, and speed is more important? >> > Well, temporary files call for a temporary file system. Why bother > with persistence? Make it tmpfs with an appropriate size limit. > The drawback of tmpfs is that it gets drawn from RAM, so a user could eat up at least 50% of the total (not available at the time) RAM on the system, and cause heavy swapping. We have users who need over a terabyte in "temporary" (really scratch) storage for HPC jobs. That said, we use ext3 because it's easier to implement than ext2.
-- -- Skylar Thompson ([email protected]) -- http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/
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