Mounting /tmp at TMP or TEMP as a last resort

Earl Chew echew@ixiacom.com
Thu Sep 9 20:53:00 GMT 2010


On 09/09/2010 1:03 PM, Dave Korn wrote:
>> but I think we
>> should keep the parsing of /etc/fstab as lean as possible; 
> 
>   I don't understand why.  How many times per second does /etc/fstab get parsed?

I interpreted cgf's comment as not wishing to add to the amount of coupling
with /etc/fstab.

/etc/fstab is already parsed for /usr/bin and /usr/lib, so in my mind
the additional query for /tmp doesn't seem to add significantly.

Earl



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