Re: How to convert /tmp to memfs after install

From: Jean-Pierre Radley (jpr_at_jpr.com)
Date: 10/17/05 

Date: 17 Oct 2005 17:33:45 -0400

Bela Lubkin typed (on Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 04:18:16PM -0400):

| Just be sure you know what you're getting into. Early builds of OSR6
| used the UnixWare startup scripts that would set /tmp up as a memfs.
| Due to observed problems, this was deliberately changed back to having
| /tmp be a regular directory, implicitly on the root filesystem.

...

| Ah, one issue that I do remember: OSR5's `vi` uses /tmp as the default
| directory for edit buffer files. After a crash (panic, power failure,
| whatever), `vi` can recover interrupted edit sessions by reading
| those edit buffers. This will not work if the directory is stored
| on a memfs. But I don't remember whether OSR6 `vi` was changed to
| avoid this problem by using a less volatile temporary directory.
| (Before you test this for yourself, make sure you aren't already
| overriding vi's temp dir with an environment variable or with vi's
| "set dir=/somewhere/else" directive...)

As shipped, vi on OSR 6.0.0 still uses /tmp, so here I've included
'dir=/usr/tmp' in my EXINIT, given that my /tmp is an memfs filesystem
but my /usr/tmp is not. 

-- 
JP