Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 24 Jul 1999 18:53:37 +0200 | From | Jens Benecke <> | Subject | Re: Partition Sizing |
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On Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 11:08:04AM +1000, Richard Gooch wrote: > > > > AFA /tmp is concerned, don't some OS's, like Solaris I believe, "mount" > > /tmp as a memory filesystem? What would be the benefits/problems with > > doing this in Linux (assuming that new memory filesystem that was just > > announced get stable/is a good idea)? > Slowass 2 has a tmpfs because their UFS implementation is dog slow. So > they had to do hack up tmpfs to give them a faster /tmp.
So, educate me please: why don't you install all of Solaris on a tmpfs partition, if it's faster? ;)
> With Linux extfs, it runs as fast as Solaris tmpfs, so there doesn't seem > much point in a tmpfs implemtation for Linux. If you really want a > memory-based FS, you may as well just put an ext2fs in a ramdisc.
is anyone working on caching metadata, so that deleting a half year old kernel source tree that has been patched twenty times and compiled at least fifty, doesn't take over a minute on a SCSI harddisk? ;)
Or did I misunderstand something?
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