On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> * it is a valid workload that a application creates a 10 GB tempfile >> * ok, you say: use /var/tmp >> * well, i say: my whole rootfs is only 4 GB and 2 Gb are used > > If your rootfs wasn't big enough for your tmp workload you would have > had to have had a separate tmp partition. Either continue to use it— > or mount it as swap and set size= to allow you to use it in tmp. > > It works great. Part of this feature involves patching applications to write temporary files to /var/tmp instead of /tmp. Reindl's point is that this change will cause temporary files that were previously written to the /tmp filesystem that he had explicitly prepared for this purpose to instead be written to /var/tmp and fill up his / filesystem. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
