On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 9:58 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 08:32:56PM +0200, Miloslav Trmač wrote: >> * #834 F18 Feature: /tmp on tmpfs - >> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/tmp-on-tmpfs (mitr, 17:40:06) >> * AGREED: tmp-on-tmpfs is accepted (+5 -3) (mitr, 18:12:52) > > Actually I think this is a good feature, but ... > > The feature page is wrong about "The user experience should barely > change. This is mostly a low-level change that has little visibility > to the user." > > tmpfs is different in a number of important ways: > > - it's very limited in space compared to a real disk Which does not really matter in practice. > - it doesn't support O_DIRECT Neither does this (which apps needs O_DIRECT on /tmp ? ). > - it doesn't support user extended attrs; and not very old kernels > didn't support any xattrs at all, meaning things like SELinux > labels don't work Huh? Why would you run a "very old kernel" on fedora? > All this means it's going to need a bit more testing, since > potentially any package that stores a file on /tmp should be tested > and may need to be fixed. Sure if bugs are found they should be fixed. But note I have been doing this testing for a *long* time (long as in years) on different systems and yet have to find a package that breaks. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
