On Fri, 2020-07-10 at 14:08 +0200, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
On Fri, 10 Jul 2020 13:51:10 +0200, Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz> wrote:
On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 11:49:45AM +0200, Richard Brown wrote:
Chiming in late, sorry
We recently moved MicroOS and Kubic to use tmpfs for /tmp instead of writing files there to disk. [...] All of these reasons also apply for regular openSUSE, so I would like to propose that Tumbleweed moves to tmpfs for /tmp soon also.
I would vehemently oppose, as we have 3rd-party applications that write to (NOT configurable) /tmp and expect it to last there for a certain time (even after a reboot).
To workaround of that, I have created several symbolic links on /tmp to /data/tmp (or /opt/app/tmp or whatever) and I would be very unpleased to see all those symlinks disappear on a reboot. That would mean I have to write service files that fire up immediately after /tmp comes up and recreates those symlinks before the application wants to start.
I really like to keep my /tmp's as clean as possible, but sometimes it is not under our control :(
FWIW I never had to do anything like that on /usr/tmp
Those applications are in serious breach of both the FHS recommendations and POSIX requirements. I would imagine they have a vested interest in fixing that problem. -- Richard Brown Linux Distribution Engineer - Future Technology Team Phone +4991174053-361 SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, D-90409 Nuernberg (HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg) Geschäftsführer: Felix Imendörffer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org