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Date:      Sat, 14 Mar 1998 13:06:21 +0100
From:      Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
To:        Joao Carlos Mendes Luis <jonny@coppe.ufrj.br>
Cc:        fs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/locate/locate concatdb.sh locate.rc         mklocatedb.sh updatedb.sh
Message-ID:  <19980314130621.53891@panke.de>
In-Reply-To: <199803082028.RAA01287@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br>; from Joao Carlos Mendes Luis on Sun, Mar 08, 1998 at 05:28:25PM -0300
References:  <199803081609.IAA00208@freefall.freebsd.org> <199803082028.RAA01287@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br>

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On 1998-03-08 17:28:25 -0300, Joao Carlos Mendes Luis wrote:
> //   Modified files:
> //     usr.bin/locate/locate concatdb.sh locate.rc mklocatedb.sh 
> //                           updatedb.sh 
> //   Log:
> //   Change default temporary directory (TMPDIR) from /tmp to /var/tmp.
> //   
> //   Mosts users seems to have a larger /var/tmp partition
> //   than /tmp - IMHO silly but who cares?
> 
> That's because /tmp is usually a mfs partition.  Also, that's why
> I would prefer using /tmp instead of /var/tmp for this kind of stuff.
> Only once I had problems with /tmp size, but I just gave it more
> memory and solved the problem.

If we have a working memory file system I will revert this
change. The main problem is that the process mount_mfs(8)
will only grow and never shrink.

-- 
Wolfram Schneider   <wosch@freebsd.org>   http://www.freebsd.org/~wosch/

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