Bug#669726: release-notes: Please document tmpfs filesystem changes for wheezy

[Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>]

Hi,

On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 11:38:25PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> Le Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 09:09:35PM +0200, Julien Cristau a écrit :
> > 
> > Hi Roger,
> > 
> > can you please provide updated text for the latest changes in
> > sysvinit/initscripts?  There should probably also be some note about the
> > mandatory parallel boot changes, would you mind filing a separate bug
> > for that part?

For the record, the missing tmpfs(5) manpage problem I reported does not
exist any longer.

> for the tmpfs part, how about the following ?  I attached the corresponding
> DocBook patch.  I updated the text to mention that /tmp is not tmpfs by
> default, and mentionned /etc/fstab as suggested by Aoki-san.
> 
> 
> 2.2.6. Temporary filesystems
...snip
>       * Applications which create excessively large files in /tmp may
>         cause /tmp to run out of free space. Such applications should not
>         be using /tmp, and require fixing. Please consider filing a bug
>         report against the application in question if you experience such
>         an occurrence.
I think above text does not account my comment:
* making program to honor $TMPDIR while admin set it via libpam-tmpdir 

This should be more like:

>       * Applications which create excessively large temporary files
>         always only in /tmp while not honoring $TMPDIR may
>         cause /tmp to run out of free space. Such applications should not
>         force to use /tmp, and require fixing. Please consider filing a bug
>         report against the application in question if you experience such
>         an occurrence.

The following sounds good:
>       * If desired, the defaults may also be overridden with an entry in
>         in /etc/fstab, for example:
> 
>         tmpfs     /tmp tmpfs     nodev,nosuid,size=20%,mode=1777    0    0



Osamu