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From: mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta)
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Subject: Fast /tmp (was Re: Mixing paging and IO is inefficient)
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Date: 28 Jun 90 01:49:16 GMT
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In article <691@sibyl.eleceng.ua.OZ> ian@sibyl.OZ (Ian Dall) writes:

>A really simple solution would be to make /tmp a seperate partition and turn
>of sync writes.

That's what I have done in the latest USENIX paper.

>A mkfs (or newfs) takes of the order of the same time as
>an fsck anyway. /tmp is usually cleared on a reboot so there is no problem.

Do you know ex3.7preserve? We should try fsck and fsck -y before newfs.

					Masataka Ohta