On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Matt B wrote:

> The server in question is running 2 enterprise third party
> applications. No compilers are installed...in fact its a super minimal
> Solaris 10 core install (06/06). The reasoning behind moving /tmp onto
> ZFS was to protect against the occasional misdirected administrator who
> accidently fills up tmp while transferring a file or what have you. As
> I said its a production server, so we are doing our best to insulate it
> from inadvertent errors

In that case, I think the easiest approach would be to use the "size"
tmpfs mount option, which limits the amount of VM /tmp can use.

> Is this dangerous given the server profile? Am i missing something

Dangerous?  I think not.  But most likely suboptimal.

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