Hello I'm back quick this time,
Thanks to all who responded so rapidly...
The consensus is mfs which makes a file system in the virtual
memory system. Some warn of problems but my zillion Sun boxes
have worked without problems for donkeys. Aplications that
really are absurdly /tmp greedy (compilation) invariably offer
some way of using another TMPDIR. I find it hard to accept
that it could be better to fiddle about with the last 17M of
/ as /tmp than to use the 128M of RAM and 855M of swap (well
hey what else do I do with /dev/rz16h - ok so I'm lazy and
cannot be moved to uninstall delivered systems just to impart
some common sense to the partition table).
Now for the question...
man mfs implies that I am somehow taking away some of the swap
area to make a file system in virtual memory. Is this the case?
Again I have to give the cigar to Solaris for providing a far
simpler system.
k.mcmanus_at_gre.ac.uk -
http://www.gre.ac.uk/~k.mcmanus
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Received on Tue Nov 04 1997 - 16:41:07 NZDT