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Re: Moving /tmp to tmpfs is fine



On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> wrote:
> On 05/27/2012 02:52 AM, Mike Hommey wrote:
>> Or, it should get clever and not unpack everything. There are plenty of
>> software that are able to read into archives without extracting from
>> them. There are even fuse filesystems to do that if it doesn't want to
>> do it itself. Using a temporary directory, be it on disk or in RAM, is
>> *always* going to be a limitation.
> You may or may not be right. That's not the point. Things are what they
> are, and we have to deal with them. Unless you want to rewrite/patch:
> - Firefox
> - mc
> - mysql
> - {open,libre}office
gscan2pdf too, I use it to send my tax receipt and It crash during
scaning due to this issue (tmpfs full)....

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