Is it safe to put /proc and /lock on a tmpfs filesystem? ****************************************************************************************** It's safe to put both of these in tmpfs, and since they're fairly busy it's a good idea for performance reasons. Further, nothing ever removes files from /lock/, so it's probably a good idea in general to mount that on tmpfs such that a reboot will purge it. The Cyrus code will create all the necessary directory structure under /lock on-demand.