Quoting Clint Byrum ([email protected]): > Excerpts from Martin Pitt's message of 2016-01-13 14:00:16 -0800: > > Ben Howard [2016-01-13 14:26 +0200]: > > > On the Ubuntu Cloud Images, we have a request to make /tmp a tmpfs. The > > > rationale, from the bug: > > > * Performance - much faster read/write access to data in /tmp > > > * Security - sensitive data would be cleared from memory on boot, > > > rather than written (leaked) to disk -- important for encryption > > > scenarios > > > > > > Since the Ubuntu Cloud Images are used by a wide number of users, I > > > wanted to gather feedback and gather consensus on whether or not we > > > should make this change. > > > > I really wish we would do this in general for new installs, at least > > as the first thing after releasing 16.04 LTS. I also do this on my > > boxes, not only for the reasons above [1], but also because it is much > > more power efficient -- as I literally work in /tmp a lot of my time > > the disk doesn't need to spin up often. > > > > You know they have these new disks that don't "spin"... ;-)
They also tend to wear out. -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
