tmp and tmpfs

[Robert Crowston]

It’ll be significantly faster in memory, it depends if you want to spare the ram.

How many temporary files do you have?

On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 15:19, tech-lists <tech-lists at zyxst.net> wrote:

> Him
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> context is rpi4 running very recent -current.
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> Which is faster/better? /tmp mounted as tmpfs as per default on rpi2/3/4, or /tmp as zfs on a usb3-connected spinning rust hd? I understand that if tmpfs fills up, it'll use swap. Faster/slower than /tmp on zfs?
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> Spinning rust is also where the swap partition lives.
>
> thanks
> --
> J.