On 1999-Oct-06 09:55:26 +1000, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>I've seen softupdates nearly eliminate disk io for systems that used
>an abmornal amount of temp files, but the fact that it can destabilize
>a system worries me greatly.
What do you mean by `destabilize'? There are bugs in softupdates
which mean that an application may receive ENOSPC when writing to a
filesystem even though space on that filesystem has been recently
freed. Any application that cannot handle this situation is _broken_.
Another option for /tmp - which I forgot last time, and seems to
avoid the known problems with MFS and softupdates - it to mount
/tmp async. Since you're going to blow it all away on the next
reboot anyway, it doesn't really matter if the a crash trashes the
FS (which is the major problem with async mounts).
Peter
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