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From: ip@mcc.ac.uk (Ian Pallfreeman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: mfs & /tmp vs /var/tmp
Date: 16 Sep 1996 21:43:53 GMT
Organization: not this decade...
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Message-ID: <51khmp$stj@yama.mcc.ac.uk>
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Since I'm struggling to get a "make world" in /usr/src to complete without
errors I thought it would be nice to speed up my compiles by building a kernel
with mfs on /tmp. Not a lot happened, then I found P_tmpdir in stdio.h is set
to /var/tmp. Rather defeats the point, I'd say. This is 2.2-CURRENT of Sep 15.

Mind you, it's an incredibly exhilarating feeling watching this poor little
PC sup a new set of fixes down the phone line, rebuild _everything_ from the 
sources, install a new kernel and reboot clean as a whistle. Kudos, guys. :-)

Ian.
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