On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 11:45:36AM +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 05/31/2012 08:14 AM, Roberto Ragusa wrote: > > On 05/31/2012 02:40 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > >> Heya! > >> > >> Please be aware that since the most recent systemd uploads /tmp is now > >> in tmpfs by default in Rawhide/F18. > > [...] > >> This will most likely lead to a problem or two with software that isn't > >> happy about /tmp being small. > > > > For example "sort". > > This is a good example because `sort` algorithmically needs > something below RAM in the memory hierarchy (i.e. bigger), > but with the same persistence characteristics of /tmp. > > Currently `sort` defaults to $TMPDIR or if not set '/tmp'.
libguestfs has roughly the same problem as 'sort'. It's unfortunate the $TMPDIR doesn't communicate any information about the availability of temporary directories of different types. I sometimes thing that having optional $PERSISTENT_TMPDIR (a pointer to a directory that persists for some time) and $ONDISK_TMPDIR (a directory that is on a slower medium than RAM) would be useful. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones New in Fedora 11: Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 70 libraries supprt'd http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW http://www.annexia.org/fedora_mingw -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
