Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (715 mails)

[Ruediger Meier <sweet_f_a@xxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 28 March 2012, Frederic Crozat wrote:
> Le mercredi 28 mars 2012 à 09:34 +0100, Ruediger Meier a écrit :
> > On Wednesday 28 March 2012, Ralf Lang wrote:
> > > > Wouldn't that mean that you don't need a few 100GB /tmp
> > > > partition? So you trade a large /tmp partition for a large swap
> > > > partition? The remaining question than is: what is more
> > > > efficient?
> > >
> > > You don't know if there even is a separate /tmp partition.
> > >
> > > Really, we should not debate if use cases are "wrong" but how a
> > > default of tmpfs can be implemented into openSUSE in a way not
> > > breaking advanced setups
> >
> > At least we must not change (shrink!) to tmpfs in the update case
> > to not break working systems.
>
> I guess this could also be done automagically.

On our desktop machines we have only one / partition to have /tmp 
and /var/tmp as large as possible. I guess any automatism would switch 
these default looking systems to tmpfs which would break all these 
systems.

In update case the only automatism could be "use tmpfs only if it 
doesn't shrink current /tmp". For most existing systems this would be 
effectively the same like "never switch to tmpfs". So just don't change 
anything on update.

cu,
Rudi
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