Re: temporary files and tmpfs

Posted in 1992

Craig Browning — 19 May 92 19:59:40 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

In article <1992May19.054402.15754@mks.com> andy@mks.com (Andy Toy) writes: >Is there a fix to 4GL and SQL that will allow them to use tmpfs for >their temporary files? I have /tmp mounted as a tmpfs filesystem >which uses the swap partitions. This is a feature of SunOS 4.1.1. >I've told our database administrator to use another filesystem for >now since there seems to be a bug in Informix software which prevents >it from using tmpfs (as well as NFS). >-- > || // // ,'/~~\\' Andy Toy, Systems Manager andy@mks.com > /||/// //|' `\\\\\\ Department of Computing Services > / | //_// ||\\___/ Mortice Kern Systems Inc. +1-519-884-2251 >O_/ 35 King Street North, Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA N2J 2W9 I think the following is the reason for tmpfs not being supported: Since "tmpfs" does not support file and record locking, you cannot use "tmpfs" file systems for use with DBTEMP in INFORMIX-SE. Craig