Symlinking /home and /tmp with bsdinstaller to save space
George Georgalis
george at galis.org
Wed Nov 24 14:56:15 PST 2004
On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 02:47:28PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> Well, MFS will probably be faster but only because the buffer cache
> is limited and write_behind clustering is the default, and only if you
> have enough free memory to hold everything. Even so it usually
> isn't a good idea to try to use MFS to speed things up because you
> wind up double-caching the data. i.e. the data is in MFS's memory
> and it is also separately cached by the VM system. It's usually a
> big waste of memory.
>
> -Matt
sounds like a waste, but is it necessary? or just waiting for a patch?
// George
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