From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 6 13:18:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from aragorn.neomedia.it (aragorn.neomedia.it [195.103.207.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51E6237B401 for ; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 13:18:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from httpd@localhost) by aragorn.neomedia.it (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f86KIMt02873; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 22:18:22 +0200 (CEST) To: Mike Meyer Subject: Re: Good practice for /tmp Message-ID: <999807502.3b97da0e9af9f@webmail.neomedia.it> Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 22:18:22 +0200 (CEST) From: Salvo Bartolotta Cc: Ceri , questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: IMP/PHP IMAP webmail program 2.2.4-cvs X-WebMail-Company: Neomedia s.a.s. X-Originating-IP: 62.98.170.254 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > An mfs is supposedly backed by swap. So if swap is on mfs, what's > backing the mfs? Is the inverse of the dual the dual of the inverse? > Where's the tylenol? Hmm, the dual of a dual is isomorphic to the original space. :-) > Anyway, I agree with you. Putting swap on mfs or md seems sort of > pointless. If the goal is to prevent people from reading sensitive > information left on swap if the hardware is compromised - which is > something security people do worry about - just configure the system > without any swap. I am probably missing something here. I seem to understand that even systems with a *large* amount of RAM [occasionally] make use of swap; in other words, the OS seems to be tuned to utilize swap, regardless of the amount of RAM present on the machine. Enlightenment welcome :-) -- Salvo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message