Re: Using tmpfs

In article <33b0hj$aaf@gv-gate.gvg.tek.com> martina@gold.gvg.tek.com writes: >Has anyone out there successfully used Sun's tmpfs (puts /tmp in >RAM for speed) with Informix? Whenever we try to do anything with >it where Informix tries to write to /tmp, it bombs. The system >error message is usually "22 Invalid Arguments" and the Informix >error varies, but I remember -229 once. > >Informix says that they haven't heard of this problem before. I remember having similar problems. I found out that the same mechanism Informix uses to determine if a path is an nfs path also makes it think tmpfs is nfs mounted. Of course it isn't. I encountered error numbers 125,126,127,128 as a result. Scott