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On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 10:16:56PM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: |
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> So what are gentoo users' opinions on this matter of faith? |
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> I have long been in the camp that thinks tmpfs for /tmp has no |
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> advantages (and may have disadvantages) over a normal filesystem like |
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> ext3, because the files there are normally so small that they will stay |
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> in the page cache 100% of the time. |
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> But I see that tmpfs is the default with systemd. Surely they have a |
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> good reason for this? :) |
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for most purposes, it avoids thrashing your storage media with useless i/o. |
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if your purposes are unusual, by all means change it back. |
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