Dr. Bill Studenmund wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Andrew J Robbie wrote:
> 
> > Also, is it possible to have something like the tempfs under Solaris? Is
> > this what an mfs file system does?
> 
> I'm not sure exactly what is a tempfs.

With Solaris tempfs, swap and /tmp can share a single partition.  This
often leads to the situation where you can't run anything other than
cat and ls, because of an idiot who forgot to remove his stupid files
in /tmp.  Trying to mail sysadmin to ask them to remove the files
would only make you realize there was not enough swap space for your
editor to start.  Sometimes even /usr/ucb/mail fails not because of
lack of swap space but because of lack of space in /tmp.  Quite
annoying IMO.

Ken