On 02/05/2012 12:22 PM, Alastair McKinstry wrote: > On 2012-02-05 11:04, Sune Vuorela wrote: >> On 2012-02-05, Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> wrote: >>> If I notice that software in Debian is ignoring TMP/TMPDIR (since I use >>> libpam-tmpdir), what severity should I file the resulting bugs at? >> wishlist? >> >> /Sune >> > Depends on how bit the files it uses in tmpdir. I've a bug in some code > i'm using > ( a FUSE filesystem that uses a cache in /tmp) that runs as root, that > at times places > arbitrarily large files (in my workflow, 5-100 GB) in /tmp, which is on > the root filesystem.
Well, probably you might want to move /tmp away from your root fs... > When a process accesses a 100 GB file it overflows / . So I needed to > get it to use an alternate $TMPDIR. > Ignoring $TMPDIR is a critical severity bug for me. ... and then it is just wishlist again. Having /tmp on / is as bad as having /var/log on / on busy machines. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de http://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f2feabb.4040...@bzed.de
