On 16/07/2020 11.11, Stasiek Michalski wrote:
On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 08:52, Frederic Crozat
wrote: Le jeudi 16 juillet 2020 à 10:16 +0200, Jiri Slaby a écrit :
Or firefox downloads for me kernel-debuginfo (over 1G) and I *open* it in Ark (not save it). So it ends up in /tmp/ too (see above).
So no, /tmp still should not be a tmpfs by default for everybody: 1) there are still brand new machines with only 1G of RAM installed. 2) /tmp is used for storing large files by users or firefox.
It would make sense to fix Firefox to use /var/tmp instead of /tmp for such case (or XDG_CACHE_DIR).
I disagree that user specific download history should be in a shared directory. Firefox should be able to: a) have per user download history b) clean that download history when it's cleaned from the interface and when files no longer exist in the cache directory
Moving download history to ~/.cache/firefox seems like a better idea.
There are advantages for having all users save their temporary FF on /tmp: that a system cron script can automatically delete old files from /tmp. It is much more difficult to do that on /home/*. Another thing I just found: vmware saves log files to /tmp. I have /tmp/vmware-root/ full of log files. It would be bad if after a crash the logs were deleted on reboot. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar)