On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 11:44:15AM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > No. An application might not know it’s writing to tmpfs (for > example, if it wasn’t even written for an operating system > with tmpfs in the first place). And it might want to use sync > writes. The user of such application might want to tell it to > write into a mounted tmpfs, for speed, if they don’t care about > data loss – and since sync is nop on tmpfs, this is A Good Thing.
Sorry, you (and hmh) are right. I think my point was, you tend to do syncs if you care about the data being written, but /tmp is a volatile filesystem whether it's a ramdisk or not: many long-running timeshares will reap files from /tmp at times other than boot up. (Please don't CC me, I'm on the list.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120525143420.GC31519@debian
