Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (715 mails)

[Richard Guenther <rguenther@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 27 Mar 2012, Frederic Crozat wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> this is a announcement regarding changes which have just landed in
> upstream systemd (not yet released nor pushed to Factory)
> regarding /media and /tmp:
> - /media will no longer mounted as tmpfs. This is because udisks2 will
> no longer use /media for mounting removables devices
> but /run/media/<user>
> - /var/run and /var/lock are no longer bind-mounted to /run | /run/lock.
> We should replace those directories with symlink to /run | /run/lock
> (probably at initrd time, this is what is done on Fedora)
> - /tmp is mounted as tmpfs, to make the default setups as stateless as
> possible. As stated on
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/tmp-on-tmpfs , we might need to
> fix some applications to use /var/tmp instead of /tmp when they need
> persistent storage. Another big issue is educating users.

Btw, I see that TMPDIR is /tmp by default on 12.1.  GCC uses this
for all temporary files, for link-time optimizing firefox for
example you need about 4GB of storage in TMPDIR.

Thus, consider that (apart from my own personal opinion that a
stateless /tmp is utterly stupid, a tmpfs /tmp is even more so).

So, change TMPDIR to point to /var/tmp?  Which would of course
make /tmp quite useless.

Richard.

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