Subject: Re: INSTALL kernels on release branch broken?
To: Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 02/22/2000 17:50:52
On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Curt Sampson wrote:

> > 	We do until someone directs pax to keep its temp data (permissions
> > 	on extracted files) somewhere other than /tmp. Should be simple to
> > 	do, but necessary unless we want to fillup the ramdisk extracting
> > 	files.
> 
> How about we mount an MFS on /tmp upon startup?

	We could do, but we can avoid the mount_mfs etc size cost as
	we do not need the space in /tmp until we extract - by which
	time we have it in the new filesystem, plus (big plus :), we
	do not blow up small memory machines...


		David/absolute