On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 18:07:18 +0100 Geert Hendrickx <ge...@hendrickx.be> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 10:55:55 -0600, Leonid Isaev wrote: > > Actually, what is stupid is keeping /tmp in RAM. It is an important dir, > > where you might have an valuable info in case of a system crash. I could > > never understand the logic behind this choice. > > > Reducing disk i/o. > > > Geert > > I find this a very weak excuse, because the normal desktop operation is not I/O bound, and the dafaults must be safest. If you compile a lot/use a lot of DB stuff, just mount /tmp to RAM in fstab but this is a special case. -- Leonid Isaev GnuPG key ID: 164B5A6D Key fingerprint: C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D
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