Steven Grunza wrote:
> 1)  When is the best time to do this?  In /etc/fstab or in /etc/rc.local?

fstab is probably better.
 
> 2)  How do I do this?  I've been trying various incantations but haven't 
> gotten mount_mfs to work yet.  The man page doesn't have an example...

I have an old entry in /etc/fstab like this:

swap /tmp mfs rw,-s30000 0 0
 
This should do the trick.

> 3)  Is this a good idea or should I just symlink /tmp to 
> /really_big_and_empty/tmp?  It seems that using MFS would result in faster 
> process execution....

Yeah, this IS a good idea :) It would probably not help general
process execution, but things using /tmp (like compiles, sendmail
and the like) should see quite notable performance increase.

Jaromir
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