[issue1954] installer creates /tmp/ as HAMMER pfs instead of tmpfs

Alex Hornung ahornung at gmail.com
Fri Jan 7 01:07:59 PST 2011


On 07/01/11 08:34, Peter Avalos (via DragonFly issue tracker) wrote:
> 
> New submission from Peter Avalos <peter at theshell.com>:
> 
> Shouldn't we default to having /tmp/ as tmpfs instead of HAMMER?

I don't think that's a good idea. If someone wants their /tmp as tmpfs,
then they can do so easily enough by changing the fstab entry.

The main  reason against this is, imo, that tmpfs is a memory file
system and can hence be problematic on machines with limited RAM and/or
large files in the /tmp directory.

Regards,
Alex





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