[Mageia-dev] [Mageia-discuss] many systemd temporary directories

Wed Apr 25 12:16:14 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and Johnny A. Solbu at 25/04/12 03:50 did gyre and gimble:
+> On Wednesday 25 April 2012 03:01, David W. Hodgins wrote:
+>> As long as it's still optional. With only 2GB of ram, I prefer to
+>> keep /tmp on disk, since I use it for things like dvd creation etc.
+> 
+> Then there is those of us who insist on having /tmp on disk, regardless of how much ram we have available.
+> I am one of those who frequently encode audio and video. For that I heavily depend on massive amounts of memory, and CPU power. :-)=
+
+And this is eactly the issue. Apps have to be configured accordingly.
+
+e.g. to use /var/tmp where some semblance of persistence and storage
+space is required, but /tmp for all other issues.
+
+This is a discussion for later so I won't go into the ins and outs of
+the feature suggestion, but suffice to say nothing is decided and
+nothing should be static (including your own use of /tmp just now).
+Proposals have to be evaluated on their own merit.
+
+Col
+
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