/tmp on tmpfs

[Fabio Massimo Di Nitto]

On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Thom May wrote:

> 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?

The only reason i can see for not doing it is when there is not too much
ram available. What about implementing it as an option?

Fabio

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