Re: /tmp as tmpfs and consequence for imaging software
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 04:29:14PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> ]] Roger Leigh
>
> Hi,
>
> somewhat of a tangent, so sorry for hijacking the thread:
>
> | Currently, the size limits for /tmp and other temporary filesystems
> | are set in /etc/default/tmpfs.
>
> Can we please stop doing things like that? It makes things harder for
> alternative init systems that sysvinit hides this in a random file in
> /etc/default rather than just putting it into fstab.
>
> The same goes for RAMTMP, RAMRUN and whatnot.
>
> (Yes, this means we need to handle /etc/fstab better from a maintainer
> script when defaults change. Maybe have /etc/fstab.d. ;-)
I may have given an incomplete picture here. While we set the defaults
there, any entry in /etc/fstab will override those defaults. So it is
already the case that the /etc/fstab entries could be used by any
init system. I would quite like for these to be created for new
installations by the debian-installer, if the d-i folks could do that.
Regards,
Roger
--
.''`. Roger Leigh
: :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/
`. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/
`- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail.
Reply to: