[Bjørn Mork] > I'd like to add another one: > > - a tmpfs is always easy to grow without requiring any special > preparations. Just add more swap. The swap could be on different > disks, and could even be files hosted on other file systems.
This sound very similar to what I am doing already with LVM and online file system growing. A simple 'lvresize' and 'ext2resize' (or just debian-edu-fsautoresize for those of us with that tool available) later the full file systems have more free space again. :) Did I misunderstand you? > Any file system will run out of space given the broken applications > mentioned in this thread. tmpfs is the only one which will allow > all systems to dynamically add more space, only limited by the > available disks. That's why tmpfs should be the default for both new > and old systems, unless the administrator has explicitly made a more > limited choice. While I agree that tmpfs should be the default, I suspect this argument isn't solid enough to make it worth it. There are luckily other arguments too. :) -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2flobouko0q....@login2.uio.no