On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 08:09:33AM -0500, Mike Hicks wrote: > Is there any need for the shmfs filesystem to be mounted somewhere on a > Linux box these days? I just realized that I haven't been using it on > my system, with no ill effects (AFAIK). You could use that for /tmp. It's blazing fast. It will speed up compilations since the temporary files do not touch the disk. > Also, I thought I'd seen that there was another filesystem that you > could (or should) use instead. Is that true? Ramfs is dead. Long live (tmp|shm)fs. florin -- "If it's not broken, let's fix it till it is." 41A9 2BDE 8E11 F1C5 87A6 03EE 34B3 E075 3B90 DFE4 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020425/3cef833e/attachment.pgp