Re: [tlug] Using TAR

[roy lo <roylo@example.com>]

Just saw your footnote, I guess you are right in that case. ^_^

Neverless, using ramdisk for /tmp is quiet a waste of memory.

I understand that tmpfs is very useful under a requirement for high 
speed temporary files system. So, some people took the alterntive method 
of creating another dictory (let's say /memtmp) for direct the specific 
applications that require high performance.



roy lo wrote:
> Killfiled me? why in the world would you want to do that?  :P
> sure we have our "differences", but killfiled me is just a overkill.
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> also, FYI in "classic" unix system /tmp wouldn't be on ramdisk
> (I thought a seasoned SysAdmin like you ought to know that already)
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> Christopher SEKIYA wrote:
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>> (I thought I'd killfiled you.  Hmmm, my procmailrc must be borked)
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>> On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 04:21:02AM -0800, roy lo wrote:
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>>> Err... what happen to your /tmp ?
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>> /tmp should be a ramdisk.
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>> -- Chris
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