Bug#637089: linux-2.6: tmpfs doesn't allow reserving blocks to the super user
Package: linux-2.6
Severity: wishlist
More and more people are using a tmpfs filesystem for /tmp, and it is
even something supported by the init scripts we ship. Contrary to most
other filesystems, there is no space reserved to the superuser. Given
any user can write to /tmp, and thus fully fill it. This breaks plenty
of things like upgrade of packages using debconf, so tmpfs should
definitely support having some blocks reserved to the super user.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
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