Re: Partition Sizing

Jens Benecke (jens@pinguin.conetix.de)
Sat, 24 Jul 1999 18:53:37 +0200

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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