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From: | Derek Robert Price |
Subject: | Re: more cvs performance questions (I think they are at least |
Date: | Wed, 29 Oct 2003 10:48:10 -0500 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 |
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Larry Jones wrote: |>a) Just what is an in-memory file system? | | |Just what it says -- a filesystem where the data only exists in memory |(rather than being written to a disk); they are commonly used for /tmp. |If you're already using such a filesystem for /tmp, you can just put |LockDir on /tmp (e.g., /tmp/CVSLockDir). I believe the Solaris variety |is called tmpfs. Although you might have to worry about any /tmp sweepers you run if you put LockDir in /tmp. Some programs which clean /tmp periodically will remove the LockDir if configured improperly. Derek - -- ~ *8^) Email: address@hidden Get CVS support at <http://ximbiot.com>! - -- It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. - Thomas Jefferson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Netscape - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/n+E5LD1OTBfyMaQRAmW1AKCfA9REyJKYj63yG8kBbIiYU9SOMwCfaOLH g/zaUHDCfdrUUW51RyuLo/U= =z510 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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