On 27 Feb 2005, at 13:15, Peter Eisch wrote:
One of the biggest problems will be what the AV scanners actually want to see - do they want to scan filenames or do they want to scan a bytestream, or what? I guess we can get around that using temporary files either way though, but for high performance we want to avoid doing extra syscalls writing to disk if possible.
Why not let the temp dir be documented as "best suited for a memory-based
filesystem" and let the user figure out what they want to do with the
worst-case scenario or thrashing the disk be the default?
Because it's not just about I/O performance, it's also about syscalls. With a vm based filesystem you still end up doing the syscalls.
Matt.
