Well, I am aware that /tmp can be mounted on swap as tmpfs and that this is really fast as most all writes go straight to memory, but this is of little to no value to the server in question.
The server in question is running 2 enterprise third party applications. No compilers are installed...in fact its a super minimal Solaris 10 core install (06/06). The reasoning behind moving /tmp onto ZFS was to protect against the occasional misdirected administrator who accidently fills up tmp while transferring a file or what have you. As I said its a production server, so we are doing our best to insulate it from inadvertent errors When this server was build it was built with 8GB of swap on a dedicated slice. /tmp was left on / (root) and later mounted on a zpool. Is this dangerous given the server profile? Am i missing something here? Some other SUN engineers say that /tmp "is" swap and vice versa on Solaris, but my understanding is that my dedicated swap slice "is" swap and is not directly accessible. /tmp is just another filesystem that is happens to be mounted on a zpool with a quota so there is no fear of user/admin error. Based on how the system was setup is this a correct assertion? This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
