Am 24.06.2014 15:24, schrieb Carlos E. R.:
On 2014-06-24 11:23, jdd wrote:
Le 24/06/2014 11:09, Dylan a écrit :
No, I use applications which create very many quite large tmpfiles with good control and garbage collection.
and do not control where these files are stored? pretty surprising. I have seen this on Windows, but on Linux?
No, this is a standard, and it is the same in Windows, by the way.
There is (on both systems) a system defined place for storing temporary files, and it can be as large as needed. Terabytes, if needed. There is no standard limiting this. On many UNIX system I have worked with /tmp has been on a small special fast, but small disk. It was only for small short lived files. An application needing much temporary disk space has been expected to use another disk. Writing large temporary files makes those files non-short-lived by definition.
Sure, what's a large file or what's short lived has change over time. But by tradition /tmp provides rather limited space, not terabytes. If you like to have such large /tmp, you can configure it this way. But when you having the effort to configure it this way, it wouldn't be much more work to change from tmpfs to a real disk. So tmps is a good default for most users on actual hardware.
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