Am 01.06.2012 22:14, schrieb Chris Adams: > Once upon a time, Reindl Harald <h.reindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> said: >> and that does also patch all applications back which starts >> using /var/tmp like "sort" as default for their temp-files? > > I keep seeing sort as the primary example: how often are people sorting > multi-gigabyte files? I've been running with either a separate > partition for /tmp (1G-2G) or tmpfs for /tmp on servers and desktops for > many years now (10+). I have never had sort fail. The only time I > think I have had a problem was with some DVD-creator software some time > back that copied the video files to /tmp (dumb #1) and then tried to > create the ISO in /tmp and copy it out (dumb #2). "sort" is only ONE application you missed the point that packagers are enforced to change temp-dir of their applications to /var/tmp instead /tmp and so it does not help people only make their /etc/fstab-line for having /tmp on their dedicated tmp-partition/disk their rootfs would still be get written full from all sort of applications - this changes mening any application using /tmp for large files in fedora has to be patched using /var/tmp the same impact for ANY application which could create large temporary files (all sort of disk/iso images and so on) P.S.: yes, i am sorting daily files with some GB with "sort" and cronjobs and i find it a little bit frustrating have to search for all it's usages and set "sort -T" because a useless feature with less benfit at all enforing packagers to change the standard location away from /tmp
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