On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 7:41 PM, Dave Reisner <[email protected]> wrote: > Additionally, clearing /tmp in /etc/rc.local is too late. Daemons are > already started at this point. X might even be running. We can't blindly > rip out this data. If we really wanted to go this route (and I > personally don't think we should), we would need to add another hook > within rc.sysint shortly after root is remounted rw, which would be the > appropriate time for this to happen.
Meh, you convinced me. I'll just reinstate the old behavior. We will not support preserving /tmp. > I disagree. Arch doesn't push any default setting of mounting tmpfs on > /tmp, so I think the majority use case is that the rm call removes > something. The opt-in behavior (the edge case) is where this becomes > a NOOP. I guess I rather should have suggested making /tmp as tmpfs the default, because there really is no good reason (at least I have not been able to find any) for doing anything else (yet people are doing it...). I guess a case could be made for keeping /tmp on the root device, but I don't think it is a good idea either. -t
