> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org > [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of William L. Maltby > Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 1:11 PM > To: CentOS General List > Subject: Re: [CentOS] MySQL on tmpfs? > > On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 19:58 +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > > Mike Kercher schrieb: > > > > >Has anyone ever mounted their /var/lib/mysql on a tmpfs or ramfs? > > >Are there any performance gains to be made doing this? > > > > > A foolish idea to me. You imagine what happens if the > machine hangs up? > > I wasn't going to say anything because he used "mount", not > "create", "generate", "make", etc. I presummed he just wanted > to mount the directory there. No harm, but no goin either. In > fact, a very smal teensy-weensy loss probably, due to the > extra step to get to things. > > > > > Alexander > > Thanks for the input folks! Mike