using tmpfs files system

[Julian Field]

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Hugo van der Kooij wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jun 2007, Julian Field wrote:
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>> You should put mount instructions in /etc/fstab. Just follow the other
>> mounts that are already there. You will probably find a line for
>> /dev/shm. Just copy that line, and change /dev/shm to
>> /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming. Don't comment out or delete the
>> original line, you want both of them!
>>
>> You can mount as many places as you like with tmpfs.
>>
>> Then it will be automatically mounted every time you reboot.
>> If you want to mount it immediately, after you have put it in /etc/fstab
>> then just issue the command
>>    mount /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming
>> with no other parameters. It will pull all the information it needs out
>> of /etc/fstab.
>>
>> Putting lines in rc.local is not the standard way of doing this! :-)
>
> The worst part is that you would mount a tmpfs AFTER starting 
> MailScanner.
>
> And changing working areas while a process is using them might lead to 
> failures.
Very true. Best to stop MailScanner before you do the mount command, and 
then start it again afterwards. I don't think I could guarantee its 
behaviour if you mount a new filesystem over the top of its working 
directories while it's running :-)

>
> Hugo.
>

Jules

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