/tmp on tmpfs

[Jeff Waugh]

<quote who="Thom May">

> It seems like current best practise is to run /tmp on a tmpfs - it's clean,
> it's fast and it's nicely limited to half your available ram, ensuring that
> you can't fill a disk by dumping crud in /tmp.
> Does anyone know any reasons why we shouldn't do this by default?

My boring-and-rigid answer is "because we're too late in the release
process". :-) Let's do this first thing once Hoary starts up.

- Jeff

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