Don is right.
I'd like to step up a level and think about the situation.
The real issue here is that having /tmp be just another directory in a
writable partition filesystem, like / or /home or whatever, means that
/tmp gets all the associated properties. One such property (A) is
that files can
2012/6/12 Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote:
The real issue here is that having /tmp be just another directory in a
writable partition filesystem, like / or /home or whatever, means that
/tmp gets all the associated properties. One such property (A) is
that files can be large and can bleed off to
On 10 June 2012 19:31, Thomas Goirand z...@debian.org wrote:
On 06/11/2012 12:06 AM, Don Armstrong wrote:
swap file on / [...] is
really the direction that we should be going
NO !
Does this need to be explained? :/
Not quite sure what you're objecting to. If you are against the use of
swap
On 11/06/12 15:01, Aneurin Price wrote:
as far as I am aware a swap file is the better
choice in virtually all situations
Assuming
http://wiki.debian.org/Hibernation/Hibernate_Without_Swap_Partition is
still current:
If you want to use hibernation (suspend-to-disk), you need roughly[0] as
much
On Monday 11 June 2012 16:01:10 Aneurin Price wrote:
On 10 June 2012 19:31, Thomas Goirand z...@debian.org wrote:
On 06/11/2012 12:06 AM, Don Armstrong wrote:
swap file on / [...] is
really the direction that we should be going
NO !
Does this need to be explained? :/
Hi,
Not
On 11 June 2012 15:21, Simon McVittie s...@debian.org wrote:
On 11/06/12 15:01, Aneurin Price wrote:
as far as I am aware a swap file is the better
choice in virtually all situations
Assuming
http://wiki.debian.org/Hibernation/Hibernate_Without_Swap_Partition is
still current:
If you want
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012, Thomas Goirand wrote:
On 06/11/2012 12:06 AM, Don Armstrong wrote:
swap file on / [...] is
really the direction that we should be going
NO !
Some imprecise language on my part has apparently lead to some
misunderstanding of what I am suggesting.
I don't mean a swap
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012, Adam Borowski wrote:
This is not an insurmountable problem: /tmp might use some form of
overlay that uses tmpfs for regular use and starts shunting to some
area other than swap once it sees it is being used for large files.
Or alternatively, there could possibly be a
On 06/11/2012 12:06 AM, Don Armstrong wrote:
swap file on / [...] is
really the direction that we should be going
NO !
Does this need to be explained? :/
Thomas
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On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 02:31:36AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
On 06/11/2012 12:06 AM, Don Armstrong wrote:
swap file on / [...] is
really the direction that we should be going
NO !
Does this need to be explained? :/
Perhaps? Please point me at the msg-id of the explanation if I missed
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