Re: Idea: mount /tmp to tmpfs depending on free space and RAM
On June 2, 2012 03:48:03 AM Serge wrote:
> 2012/6/2 Bruce Sass wrote:
> >> Maintainer will probably write a better code.
> >
> > Much better... if TMPTIME != 0 it will be necessary to mount the FS based
> > /tmp, clean it, create a tmpfs, move anything left in /tmp to the tmpfs,
> > then mount --bind the tmpfs on /tmp.
>
> Oh... I was not thinking about TMPTIME. Does it mean that there's no way
> we can mount /tmp to tmpfs because it breaks TMPTIME?
no... TMPTIME is currently meaningless (or effectively == 0) when /tmp is a
tmpfs, that is simply an expected consequence of keeping /tmp in RAM. It could
become meaningful if tmpfs on /tmp's contents were written to disk at shutdown
then reloaded at boot when TMPTIME's value is !=0.
What it does mean is that automatically changing a system over to /tmp on
tmpfs was a bad idea both philosophically and because it could cause data
lose; and that there should be a check of TMPTIME's value and the contents of
/tmp before any automated mechanism changes to a tmpfs based /tmp, to mitigate
the possibility of data loss.
- Bruce
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