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

[Andy Davidson]

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

On Linux, with common filesystems, by default, normally, yes.

tmpfs means your computer wont then try to do a bdflush/sync to disks 
(marginal effect if any), but also that the data wont be flushed from 
the disk cache (so it could sit in /tmp for a long time and always be 
there when you want it.)

-a