Re: [linux-lvm] LILO configuration for LVM "boot" filesystem

[Mark van Walraven <markv wave co nz>]

On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 03:30:36PM +0200, Jens Benecke wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 01:08:24AM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> > Another thing to consider if you run 2.4 kernel -- mount tmpfs on /tmp
> > (and give some reasonable size restrictions).   This way, /tmp works much
> > faster, does not need to be cleaned on boot, and will not eat root's
> > space.  You should have reasonable swap space it you plan to use it
> > heavily.  Works very well here.
> 
> tmpfs? I thought that existed only on Solaris, and the primary reason for
> tmpfs is that Solaris's UFS is so ssllooww compared to other FS (e.g.
> ext2, reiser, etc.)

It's in Linux 2.4 also.  It has the same unfortunate problem as on Solaris,
that once someone fills /tmp, you run out swap and daemons start dying.

Mark.