Re: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useless
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 09:46:37AM +0200, Vincent Danjean wrote:
> If some kind of sync is required by the application, I think this is
> because the application want to ensure the data are really written to
> the disk so that their state remains coherent even in case of crash.
> If the application is ok to have this kind of data written to
> tmpfs (ie in memory), I do not see the interest of using sync at
> first. Can someone shows me a valid use case of sync on tmpfs?
I'd agree with your analysis, it's buggy for them to aggressively sync for writes
to /tmp.
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