Re: merged /usr considered harmful (was Re: Bits from the Technical Committee)
Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes:
> I see that you have your system configured to store /tmp on your disk.
> This is generally not recommended these days. Storing /tmp in tmpfs is
> much faster for some applications and automatically achieves the desired
> and standard /tmp behavior of clearing it on reboot. About the only
> reason not to use tmpfs is if you have a very memory-constrained system
> and don't want to use any member at all for memory-backed file systems.
Argh, that should have been "and don't want to use any *memory* at all for
memory-backed file systems."
Apologies for the additional message, but that word substitution was
sufficiently confusing that I'm not sure the intended meaning was clear.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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