/boot at beginning of drive

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2006-04-17 17:18, David J Brooks <daeg at houston.rr.com> wrote:
> > http://users.rcn.com/rneswold/fbsd-init.html#AEN258
>
> I stand corrected. I can still envision problems if tmp files use enough space
> to prevent a memory swap. Running out of swap space is not healthy.

That's why swap-backed /tmp filesystems have a `size'.  To make sure
they can't exceed it :)

If, knowing all this, you still plan for a very small swap space, then
you are right that problems will start creeping up very fast.