Re: TMPDIR - Do we also need a drive backed TPMDIR ?
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On Thu, 2016-07-21 at 13:38 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> You are using `survives reboots' as a proxy for `on disk'; and using
> `on disk' as a proxy for `has enough space for large amounts of data'.
Yes. :-)
> I don't think this is a good approach.
>
> It's true that /tmp has traditionally been smaller than /var/tmp,
> partly as an accident of partition and filesystem layout.
>
> As a practical matter, there are big performance gains to be had from
> not requiring across-reboot (and, particularly, across-crash)
> persistence.
>
> Perhaps the right answer is instead that we should simply configure
> more swap by default ? (IIRC tmpfs data can be swapped.)
Yes. But that's not the default in our setups. Perhaps next step is to file a
wishlist bug report.
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Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs
Debian - The Universal Operating System
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