Re: Question related to automaticly encrypted /tmp /vat/tmp (like swap..?)

2006-07-07 Thread Janne Johansson
Daniel A. Ramaley wrote: I have not seen documented how mfs allocates memory, so i just did a quick test. On a machine with 205 MB of RAM free i mounted a 128 MB mfs. Free RAM dropped to 199 MB; only 6 MB used! So OpenBSD must only allocate RAM for sectors that have actually been written to.

Re: Question related to automaticly encrypted /tmp /vat/tmp (like swap..?)

2006-07-05 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
On Tuesday 04 July 2006 11:13, Hannah Schroeter wrote: It *is*. I've done so since a nearly uncountable number of years. Something like this in /etc/fstab helps. /dev/wd0b /tmpmfs rw,-m0,-s204800 0 0 In the past i've always symlinked /tmp to point to /var/tmp.

Question related to automaticly encrypted /tmp /vat/tmp (like swap..?)

2006-07-04 Thread sebastian . rother
Some days ago I read a question related to encrypting a partition. I just know that swap gets encrypted automaticly. Wouldn`t it be possible to encrypt also /tmp and /var/tmp also automaticly with the same mechanism wich is used to encrypt the SWAP? Somebody mentioned that encrypting /tmp would

Re: Question related to automaticly encrypted /tmp /vat/tmp (like swap..?)

2006-07-04 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 04:14:51PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some days ago I read a question related to encrypting a partition. I just know that swap gets encrypted automaticly. Wouldn`t it be possible to encrypt also /tmp and /var/tmp also automaticly with the same mechanism wich is

Re: Question related to automaticly encrypted /tmp /vat/tmp (like swap..?)

2006-07-04 Thread Peter Blair
I haven't tried under OpenBSD, but mounting /tmp as a ramdisk could prove viable. On 7/4/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some days ago I read a question related to encrypting a partition. I just know that swap gets encrypted automaticly. Wouldn`t it be possible to encrypt also

Re: Question related to automaticly encrypted /tmp /vat/tmp (like swap..?)

2006-07-04 Thread Hannah Schroeter
Hi! On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 11:44:22AM -0400, Peter Blair wrote: I haven't tried under OpenBSD, but mounting /tmp as a ramdisk could prove viable. It *is*. I've done so since a nearly uncountable number of years. Something like this in /etc/fstab helps. /dev/wd0b /tmp

Re: Question related to automaticly encrypted /tmp /vat/tmp (like swap..?)

2006-07-04 Thread tony sarendal
On 04/07/06, Hannah Schroeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 11:44:22AM -0400, Peter Blair wrote: I haven't tried under OpenBSD, but mounting /tmp as a ramdisk could prove viable. It *is*. I've done so since a nearly uncountable number of years. Something like this

Re: Question related to automaticly encrypted /tmp /vat/tmp (like swap..?)

2006-07-04 Thread Hannah Schroeter
Hi! On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 05:30:51PM +0100, tony sarendal wrote: On 04/07/06, Hannah Schroeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 11:44:22AM -0400, Peter Blair wrote: I haven't tried under OpenBSD, but mounting /tmp as a ramdisk could prove viable. It *is*. I've done so since