Action required: Rawhide: /tmp is now on tmpfs

[Steve Clark]

On 06/01/2012 10:23 AM, Alexey I. Froloff wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 09:27:16AM -0400, Brian Wheeler wrote:
>>> my biggest problem was that tmpfs by
>>> default allocates half of physical RAM for partition.  So I just
>>> allocated big enough swap and added a line to /etc/fstab with
>>> appropriate size= option.
>> And how is a random user supposed to know this?
> In Soviet ALT Linux we didn't care about "random users" ;-)
>
> In perfect world "random user" must be smart enough to read the
> documentation.  However, this implies, that such documentation
> exists and easily accessed (which at first sight is true for
> Fedora).
>
>> So if things start acting up the answer is to add more swap and
>> mess with fstab?  WTF?
> This is up to Release Managers.  Reasonable defaults in
> installer, documentation, etc...
>
>> So now any software which uses /tmp for *gasp* temporary space
>> is now potentially broken depending on the size of the
>> temporary data.
> Well, no software should use /tmp directly, IMO.  There's nice
> environment variable $TMPDIR.  You can always point it to
> $HOME/tmp for example.  And you can always turn it off if you
> really need to.
>
>> Sorry guys, this feature sucks.
> I like this feature, and there should be easy, well documented
> way to turn it off.  I personally don't see a reason why it
> should be off by default.
>
Since most user don't know anything about this why not leave it off and the sophisticated power
user can turn it on, since It is trivial to do.


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