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On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 03:05:38 +1030 |
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stephen white <steve@×××××××××××××××.au> wrote: |
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> On Sunday, November 9, 2003, at 02:19 AM, Michael Diederich wrote: |
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> > Thanks for all your replies - /tmp is a very good idea ;-) |
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> Nobody else said it, so I will... your Linux system can also be |
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> improved by what you don't add, so I would recommend binning the |
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> drives. It's not worth the effort of trying, and it's a false |
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> economy to use them. On /tmp, the machine will die if the drive |
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> fails. |
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> As this is the server mailing list, I'll also point out that adding |
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> odd bits and pieces of hardware to your machines makes groups of |
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> servers more difficult to manage. You should be working towards |
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> standardised machines to minimise the number of hardware profiles |
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> you need to maintain. |
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And.. surely swap, /tmp and /var are a BAD places for old *slow* HDs. |
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