| From: | "Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Wed, 24 Nov 2004 22:34:39 +0100 |
On Wednesday, 24. November 2004 22:11, George Georgalis wrote: > >> / > >> swap > >> /var > >> /usr > >> > >> then symlink > >> > >> /var/tmp > > > >This ought to be on permanent storage. > Yes, I generally don't put any partitions in a memory filesystem. > There may be specialty applications where it would be desirable. > And indeed, I do sometimes mount a temporary ram filesystem, for > archive extraction/build. That can be a lot quicker then extracting > and writing on one disk, but I nuke the memory filesystem when done > because how much available ram helps a running system performance. i don't think there is much of a difference whether the system swaps out/flushes data of a memory filesystem or cached data of a "real" filesystem... except, of course, that a memfs eats swap cheers simon -- /"\ \ / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign / \ Against HTML Mail and News
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