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

[Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>]

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

> In anything resembling a 'normal' system (ie. the kind where one might
> be using the defaults) I would say that the tmpfs correlation is so
> strong as to be very nearly 1:1, and this seems like the crux of the
> matter; that is after all the reason that these applications are
> failing when /tmp is switched to tmpfs.

I agree that's likely for any system using a default disk layout, so my
comment was irrelevant for this discussion.

I still think that the easy tmpfs resizing (no meta data update, no LVM
requirements, can use available space on other file systems) makes it
superior for /tmp.  But most users won't know that they can do this, so
we might need a daemon monitoring /tmp and doing ondemand resizing.


Bjørn