Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 4 Dec 1999 01:14:52 +0100 (CET) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: Can't hardlink in different dirs. (BUG#826) |
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On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Richard Gooch wrote:
>No, the reason for having /tmp on a separate FS is so that damage to >/tmp (which you don't care about) can't affect /. The more you write >to a FS, the more chance you have of damaging it, even parts that you >don't write to.
Of course if you put /tmp in another disk this make sense.
But if you take it in the same disk but in a different partition, supposing as you say that you'll genrated defective sectors in /tmp because it's too much stressed compared to the rest of the disk, then you could have all the machine blocked all the time rereading one sector for half a minute maybe plus scsi aborts and so on.
The best is to distribute the load of the I/O all over the place IMHO. So you can just look at the time the HD is supposed to run fine, and after such time you replace the HD.
Andrea
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