On 06/01/2012 10:23 AM, Alexey I. Froloff wrote:
On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 09:27:16AM -0400, Brian Wheeler wrote:
my biggest problem was that tmpfs by
default allocates half of physical RAM for partition. So I just
allocated big enough swap and added a line to /etc/fstab with
appropriate size= option.
And how is a random user supposed to know this?
In Soviet ALT Linux we didn't care about "random users" ;-)
In perfect world "random user" must be smart enough to read the
documentation. However, this implies, that such documentation
exists and easily accessed (which at first sight is true for
Fedora).
So if things start acting up the answer is to add more swap and
mess with fstab? WTF?
This is up to Release Managers. Reasonable defaults in
installer, documentation, etc...
So now any software which uses /tmp for *gasp* temporary space
is now potentially broken depending on the size of the
temporary data.
Well, no software should use /tmp directly, IMO. There's nice
environment variable $TMPDIR. You can always point it to
$HOME/tmp for example. And you can always turn it off if you
really need to.
Sorry guys, this feature sucks.
I like this feature, and there should be easy, well documented
way to turn it off. I personally don't see a reason why it
should be off by default.
Since most user don't know anything about this why not leave it off and the
sophisticated power
user can turn it on, since It is trivial to do.
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