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Temporary files.

Temporary files.

Posted Mar 16, 2009 15:22 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Temporary files. by k8to
Parent article: Ts'o: Delayed allocation and the zero-length file problem

Alternatively you could use... tmpfs! Writing a large file to /tmp isn't
going to crash the box unless you explicitly raised the size limits
on /tmp...


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