Re: Moving /tmp to tmpfs is fine
On Mon, 28 May 2012, Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> wrote:
> On 05/27/2012 09:38 PM, Russell Coker wrote:
> > Sure it's easy for me to fix that when upgrading and when compared to all
> > the other things I have to do on an upgrade it's not much of a big deal.
>
> It's *not* easy, this involve init.d script foo ATM. See #674517.
As noted in that bug report you can just edit /etc/default/rcS to make it not
use a tmpfs for /tmp. That is easy to fix.
On Mon, 28 May 2012, Jon Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> wrote:
> On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 04:25:30PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > We should be thinking about implementing per-user temporary directories
> > and making sure that programs respect $TMPDIR. (On Linux it's also
> > possible to give each user a different /tmp through mount namespaces.
> > I'm not sure whether that's compatible with historical use of /tmp by
> > the X window system.)
>
> Yes! This is a good idea for other reasons, too, including some disc
> encryption situations. Perhaps it's a candidate for a release goal for
> wheezy+1? Some scoping work is probably required.
Using a bind mount to make /tmp/.X11-unix available to the logged in user
isn't going to be difficult. What is /tmp/.X0-lock used for?
As for making it a release goal for wheezy+1, it can't be enabled by default
because usually the users expect to be able to share files via /tmp.
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