Linda Walsh said the following on 05/07/2013 07:20 PM:
Anton Aylward wrote:
Ah, another fringe case raises its head!
--- Nope.. another real-life case. But if you only think of yourself, you'll think everyone else is fringe.
Just so: in fact everyone can say that - everyone has their own context and needs.
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Or are you being ridiculous just for the sake of the argument?
This is the problem with current openSUSE -- it's being designed for laptops and handhelds.
And workstations - "Desktops". Don't for get the "D in SLED
I'm talking about a server. And while 1TB would be large, 300-400GB would not be -- and that would still overwhelm any memory based tmp system.
I keep saying Context is Everything but you seem to want to take what as say as a Bed for Procrustes. If your use case for the business needs requires a large transient file then yes, you should not be using a tmpfs for /tmp. If you feel that way then get the openSuse developers to make the type of store for /tmp easily configurable. It *IS* configurable right not, but you have to disable a unit and make an entry in /etc/fstab. I could do that in a about 50 seconds. I'm sure its within tour skill set too, Linda. Yes it would be nice to have Yast do it for those who live and die by Yast, but I don't.
SuSE's changes indicate a much stronger leaning toward portables.
Maybe; the media is bemoaning that Ubuntu isn't moving to 'phones and tablets' fast enough.
Most server admins would think nothing of their system using a custom kernel for their HW -- you want the best performance out of it possible.
Its not just the custom kernel, its all the tuning parameters that are available. I've mentioned the virtual memory ones, but there are ones to do with the disk algorithms, the processor scheduling, times-slicing and more. And they interact. Its a "Black Art".
laptops & handhelds, portability is key -- ease of use -- dumbing down interfaces for non-computer users... and locking down the machines so users can't corrupted them with their own software and binaries -- they'll only be able to use stuff they buy from "the app store"...
That's the direction suse's changes are going.
If that's so they're not alone; that's where the market is going. There's a quote from Gandhi: "There goes my people. I must follow them, for I am their leader." -- Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself. Chinese Proverb -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org