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

[Reindl Harald]

Am 01.06.2012 23:23, schrieb Garrett Holmstrom:
> On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote:
>>> * it is a valid workload that a application creates a 10 GB tempfile
>>> * ok, you say: use /var/tmp
>>> * well, i say: my whole rootfs is only 4 GB and 2 Gb are used
>>
>> If your rootfs wasn't big enough for your tmp workload you would have
>> had to have had a separate tmp partition. Either continue to use it—
>> or mount it as swap and set size= to allow you to use it in tmp.
>>
>> It works great.
> 
> Part of this feature involves patching applications to write temporary
> files to /var/tmp instead of /tmp.  Reindl's point is that this change
> will cause temporary files that were previously written to the /tmp
> filesystem that he had explicitly prepared for this purpose to instead
> be written to /var/tmp and fill up his / filesystem

thank you for understand and make clear what i mean

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