On 7/8/09, Frank Peters <frank.pet...@comcast.net> wrote: > However, I am not clear on how tmpfs will fail. If the tmpfs mount > becomes filled or exceeds the file limit, since it is essentially just > another disk partition shouldn't it produce a "No more space left on device" > error?
Yes it does. Or at least that's what it did to me last week when I was experimenting something utterly stupid with kernel memory settings on a box with 2GB physical RAM, 8 GB swap, /var/tmp/portage mounted on tmpfs with size=9000M, and trying to emerge openoffice -- while only having compiled a kernel which could handle a maximum of 4GB of memory ... :) -- Arttu V.
