[HEADS-UP] Rawhide: /tmp is now on tmpfs

Simo Sorce simo at redhat.com
Fri Jun 1 18:14:12 UTC 2012


On Fri, 2012-06-01 at 12:58 -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Simo Sorce <simo at redhat.com> said:
> > On Fri, 2012-06-01 at 11:02 -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
> > > Once upon a time, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> said:
> > > > thank you for breaking setups of well thought virtual machines
> > > > on expensive SAN storages with a as small as possible rootfs
> > > > with a own virtual disk for /tmp with new defaults
> > > 
> > > If you are mounting a filesystem on /tmp, it'll be in /etc/fstab and
> > > still work exactly as before (if not, that's a bug and should be treated
> > > as such).
> > 
> > Chris, the problem is that now you have to add a /tmp filesystem,
> > before /tmp was just a normal directory in root.
> 
> Did you read what I was replying to?  My understanding of it was about
> already using a separate /tmp filesystem.

I read it but I have misunderstood. I would hope people that already
have /tmp in fstab see no changes.

Simo.

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Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York



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