[Gllug] Grub on lvm

[Jose Luis Martinez]

2009/1/9 Hari Sekhon <hpsekhon at googlemail.com>:
> Nix wrote:
>> On 6 Jan 2009, James Hawtin uttered the following:
>>
>>> Out of interest Was your /var, /usr, /tmp or /home part of your /
>>> filesystem? I aways give them seperate partitions.
>>>
>>
>> Likewise, only... why would you give /tmp a partition at all? tmpfs has
>> been de rigeur for such things forever, and is significantly faster as
>> well as saving disk space. (/var/tmp is different: that is supposed to
>> persist across reboots, unlike /tmp.)
>>
> But then you're trading /tmp disk for ram, not the best thing to do in
> all cases...


Which cases?

RAM is cheap, around £10 per GByte.  If one is having RAM constraints
throwing an extra 1 GB RAM module at the problem is not going to break
the bank balance, in the case of /tmp it will really boost your
performance (you could go as far as puting other parts of your
filesystem in RAM if you really need to avoid slow disk accesses).
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