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Subject: RE: CD-ROM based bastion (Solaris 2)
From: "Antonio Vasconcelos" <antonio_vasconcelos @ q950 . bvl . pt>
Date: 23 Feb 1995 21:49:26 +0000
To: "FireWalls Mailing List" <firewalls @ greatcircle . com>, "Reto Lichtensteiger" <rali @ hri . com>

: It looks that it could be done... (if I could write that as a boot
: disk, of course...).

>Errrmm ... Perhaps you've considered using a small disk with a couple
of
>partitions for /tmp and /var/tmp (And anywhere else you might desire
to
>put volatile things ...)?
>
>God knows we have enough old 100MB disks left over from old
workstations ...

I'll have to use some kind of HD anyway, it's a real hard job to swap
memory pages to cd-rom... 8-)
But with tmpfs (ram based) it could help to rise performance a bit. 


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