On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 12:27 PM, DJ Delorie <dj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This conclusion is NOT TRUE for me. I've checked it. /tmp on ext3 on > my system does NOT incur any disk I/O until long after the process > using it has finished, if at all, as long as the files are small and > transient. Glad to see you've taken the all caps advice. I'm not sure what you're measuring though, because the metadata absolutely does get written write away for me. For a more dramatic example touch a file then hit the power button a few seconds later. > And if they're neither small nor transient, RAM is the wrong place for > them anyway. If they really aren't transient then /tmp is the wrong place for them. But regardless, if ram isn't the IO optimal place for them then they won't remain in ram. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
