On 05/03/2010 06:17 PM, Guido Berhoerster wrote:
* Dave Plater
[2010-05-03 18:02]: Sorry I've nothing against /var/run although in my unqualified opinion, it should rather be ramfs which wouldn't need to have a large initial
No, tmpfs grows dynamically and it can be limited to a maximum size.
size. /tmp being mounted as either ramfs or tmpfs would need a lot of changes in programs that use tmp for large files like dvds for instance moving to /var/tmp.
It is just a matter of having a big enough swap partition.
I'm worrying about protecting my meger 1Gig ram, I've a 1.5 Gig swap mainly because I hibernate regularily and that fails if I have too many tabs open in firefox. I usualy close and save firefox, if I remember. Can you imagine what would happen if /tmp is on any ram based file system and I process a dvd which uses four and a half gig in /tmp. If a change is made like that there are going to be a lot of very unhappy desktop users if, mainly packman packages don't change the default temporary directory. Regards Dave P -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org