[tech] A question of File System

[David Luyer]

> I bet that you had stuff mounted sync (default under solaris, right?)

Not even an option I'm aware of.  They have noatime, but nothing like soft
updates or ways to avoid delays with temp files such as deferring creation
on disk until the object is pushed out of cache (and I am already using
noatime).

Remember the reason for tmpfs is that Solaris sucks with temporary files
on UFS.  Linux doesn't need a fs for /tmp.  It handles short-lived files
quite well.

David.