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Does the (source) device in a tmpfs type mount mean anything?
I just went into /etc/fstab (Linux) and changed my line for /tmp (on which a specific ext4 partition was previously mounted) to tmpfs. This was clearly a bit silly, but I wasn't thinking. Anyway, I ...
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tmpfs and vm.swappiness
I have started tuning a bit Linux VM performance on my system (yes. I know that vm.swappiness=0 will kill kittens but I found 30-40 as much better for me as it improved my latency - probably at cost ...
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(How) can I create a tmpfs as a regular (non-root) user?
The distribution is an Ubuntu server running the 2.6.35-30 Linux kernel.
I would like to have a directory that sits completely in memory. Is this possible without root privileges?
