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Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 15:23:46 -0500 (EST)
From: Chris Meadors <clubneon@hereintown.net>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: Trashing ext2 with hdparm
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On 6 Dec 2000, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> <HARP>
> Please don't use the path /var/shm... it was a really bad precedent
> set when someone suggested it.  Use /dev/shm.
> </HARP>

And I'll ask again...  If this is now the recommend mount point, can we
have devfs create this directory for us?

-Chris
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