[Nottingham] any issues symlinking /tmp -> /var/tmp ?

Martin martin at ml1.co.uk
Mon Aug 15 12:40:30 BST 2005


Andy Davidson wrote:
[...]
> Bang /tmp in memory - the mountpoint for /tmp is mounted from virtual 
> memory - wait times to pull this data will be significantly reduced (if 
> you have RAM to play with).
> 
> Check out tmpfs.

Are not all filesystems cached in memory in any case, so that you get 
fast access to recently accessed file data?

Cheers,
Martin

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