On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 12:56 PM, Oliver Grawert <[email protected]> wrote: > hi, > Am Mittwoch, den 13.01.2016, 23:00 +0100 schrieb Martin Pitt: >> 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. > > while i'm all for it, lets please have a check for RAM size in that > code, you really dont want /tmp in ram on a low ram system with i.e. > 64-128MB (thin client, embedded box or whatever) by default.
Totally agree! The bug is updated :-) -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
