Re: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useful
Joey Hess dixit:
>If programs that write large files to /tmp are changed to usr /var/tmp,
>then over time a system will accumulate orphaned large tmp files in
>/var/tmp. Nothing will come along and clean them up.
This is indeed a valid point. But that’s no regression; /tmp has
always been for small short-lived files, and /var/tmp for those
that are not one of them or not both.
The question whether there needs to be a way to store large temporary
files that are cleaned up automatically (yes, please), when (Ben
Hutchings fsck experience comes to mind) and how (?) should be
orthogonal to the /tmp as tmpfs discussion (but be done).
For what it’s worth, I’ve run into limits when having /tmp as a
filesystem more often than when it was in RAM.
bye,
//mirabilos
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<ch> you introduced a merge commit │<mika> % g rebase -i HEAD^^
<mika> sorry, no idea and rebasing just fscked │<mika> Segmentation
<ch> should have cloned into a clean repo │ fault (core dumped)
<ch> if I rebase that now, it's really ugh │<mika:#grml> wuahhhhhh
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