On 06/01/2012 03:23 PM, Garrett Holmstrom wrote:
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.
Without getting into the specifics of whether the feature is useful or
not... Part of it could be. If fstab contains a /tmp mountpoint re-write
it to /var/tmp? I doubt that will make people stop talking about this
feature but just a thought.
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