> It's beginning to sound like your particular machines need either more > RAM or to use a different temporary location which is on a permanent > location. Just add some rules to clean it all up at reboot. Perhaps there are a couple of thousand users with the same use case, I don't know if it is the case but should be investigated rather than discarded.
> That does NOT mean that Debian should change the default just to suit > low memory devices. So let's put minimum requirements unnecessarily high so a few people with super expensive laptops can have a 0.3μs speedup? (And people with cheaper hardware might never find out why the hell "linux" freezes if they click on a large tar archive). > No. The default is fine and sane but no default will ever satisfy every > possible device. Low memory devices have many many more problems than > just where /tmp is mounted. But with tmpfs on disk, more devices would work by default (the ones with a lot of memory and disk, and the ones without much memory but with disk space). Bye -- Salvo Tomaselli -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
