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Re: Idea: mount /tmp to tmpfs depending on free space and RAM



Aneurin Price <aneurin.price@gmail.com> writes:

> (Note that we are talking about applications which fail gracefully
> when confronted with ENOSPC, 

Are we? What's the problem then?

> but which are likely to do so more often when the size of /tmp is
> restricted.)

Yes, but the tmpfs correlation is weak.  There is absolutely no
guarantee that there will be more space available on the root file
system than a default tmpfs.



Bjørn


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