Ted Ts'o wrote: > The main advantage of tmpfs is that it gets wiped on reboot, and so it > prevents people and applications from thinking that they can keep > stuff in /tmp forever. It's also faster because a file system has to > do extra work to make sure the files are preserved after a reboot. This is no new advantage; Debian has deleted the contents of /tmp on boot by default for as long as I can remember. -- see shy jo, astouded at the amount of misinformation in this thread
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