/tmp on tmpfs

Matt Zimmerman mdz at canonical.com
Sun Sep 12 20:52:48 CDT 2004


On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 07:59:52AM +0800, John wrote:

> Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> 
> >>Using tmpfs would make this worse.
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >Only if you store large files there.  G
> >
> 
> 
> See the first para you quoted.

Right.  My point was, that is voluntary behaviour, and if you use a tmpfs
/tmp, you would not do that, and you would use a different directory
(/var/tmp is a good choice).  It's no reason to avoid tmpfs for /tmp.

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 - mdz




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