/tmp on tmpfs

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 12:13:17PM +1000, James Gregory wrote:

> I agree with the policy of using tmpfs -- it's a sane default in the
> overwhelming majority of cases. For a desktop OS though, it's not smart to
> expect users to change that default if they are (for example) burning
> DVDs. Where does (for example) nautilus-cd-burner dump its temporary ISOs
> when burning CDs? If we are to go with tmpfs then I guess really we should
> be configuring those apps so that they will use something like /var/tmp.
> The really compelling reason for doing that to my mind anyway is that
> you're less likely to run out of disk space in /var than you are in swap.

Good point; I didn't realize that nautilus-cd-burner created a temporary
image, rather than using a pipeline.

At any rate, we won't be changing this for Warty so close to release.  It's
something to consider for the future.

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 - mdz