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On Tue, 17 May 2011 16:00:41 -0400 |
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Olivier Crête <tester@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 01:18 +0530, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: |
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> > Maybe you should use /var/tmp for that? Or ~/tmp/ ? |
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> > OTOH, we could use an rc.conf configuration variable to control |
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> > whether /tmp is mounted as tmpfs. |
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> Having /tmp and /var/tmp as tmpfs sounds like a terrible idea.. I |
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> don't think we should facilitate it in any way. |
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I always thought we're having two separate temporary directories |
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because /tmp is for small data (i.e. suitable for tmpfs) while /var/tmp |
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is for larger one. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |