Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (715 mails)

[Frederic Crozat <fcrozat@xxxxxxxx>]

Le mercredi 28 mars 2012 à 11:41 -0300, Claudio Freire a écrit :
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Jos Poortvliet <jos@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > In short, I would STRONGLY recommend against mounting /tmp tmpfs. That ONLY
> > works for advanced users as they can fix the resulting problems themselves.
> > Anyone who keeps their PC on for a longer period of time will see that
> > folder grow and grow and grow. Eating memory instead of diskspace is bad in
> > itself, running out of space there is worse...
>
> I recommend the opposite. I recommend doing this move with a small
> tmpfs early in the release cycle, so that testers can weed out
> misbehaving apps (like gimp). Those apps should be using /var/tmp.

To be more precise, Lennart (systemd author) has put some developer
oriented informations about /tmp in a post blog : 

http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/tmp.html

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Frederic Crozat <fcrozat@xxxxxxxx>
SUSE

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