;s
> > a bad default. It breaks a lot of things and, which is more important,
> > brings nothing good."
>
> "A lot of things" means here: it can run out of space. That's it.
>
> Any other downsides?
No. What the author means is that lots of differe
On Mon, Apr 24, 2023 at 12:16:36PM -0400, Celejar wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Apr 2023 09:52:23 +0200
> to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
[...]
> "Mounting /tmp to tmpfs may be a good thing in some rare cases, but it's
> a bad default. It breaks a lot of things and, which is more important,
> brings nothing good."
On Wed, 19 Apr 2023 09:52:23 +0200
to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
...
> One case where tmpfs for /tmp makes a ton of sense is when you want
> to have most things read only (or read mostly), because your devices
> die from too much writes (the Raspi/SD pattern, for example -- note
> that I wrote SD, not
On Wed, 19 Apr 2023 08:55:25 +0200
Nicolas George wrote:
...
> (I do not know if Debian has provisions to format a /tmp partition with
> an ephemeral encryption key on boot, like it has for the swap.)
It apparently does not, and apparently other distributions do not as
well. Here's a post on th
On 2023-04-20 16:19:41 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 04:13:48PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > "marginally faster" is incorrect, but this probably depends on
> > how fast the disk is. For the MPFR svn-to-git conversion with
> > reposurgeon 2 years ago, I
On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 10:29:04AM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 10:14 AM Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> >
> > On 2023-04-19 08:34:50 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > > There is one downside to /tmp on tmpfs: it eats RAM. You gotta
> > > h
On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 10:14 AM Vincent Lefevre wrote:
>
> On 2023-04-19 08:34:50 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > There is one downside to /tmp on tmpfs: it eats RAM. You gotta
> > have some of it (currently I've 9G free on / and 16G RAM).
>
> True, and when I us
On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 04:13:48PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
[...]
> "marginally faster" is incorrect, but this probably depends on
> how fast the disk is. For the MPFR svn-to-git conversion with
> reposurgeon 2 years ago, I had to use /dev/shm (tmpfs) because
> it was awfully slow on /tmp (b
On 2023-04-19 08:34:50 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> There is one downside to /tmp on tmpfs: it eats RAM. You gotta
> have some of it (currently I've 9G free on / and 16G RAM).
True, and when I used tmpfs in the past (in 2012), I got many failures
due to lack of space (because of
wrote:
...
> Definitely,but we nerds gotta nerd :)
haha! :)
songbird (nerd lives matta!
On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 06:00:53PM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote:
> On 19/04/2023 13:34, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 01:15:01PM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote:
> > > Summary: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useless
> > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/06/msg00311.html
> > >
On 19/04/2023 13:34, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 01:15:01PM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote:
Summary: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useless
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/06/msg00311.html
That is linked from
https://wiki.debian.org/SSDOptimization/#Reduction_of_SSD_wri
On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 08:55:25AM +0200, Nicolas George wrote:
> to...@tuxteam.de (12023-04-19):
> > What I didn't like from the post [...]
> I am not that surprised to find this level of argumentation in a text
> that announces its unbalanced conclusion in the title [...]
I wouldn't be so harsh
stro.
>
> Cheers
>
Neither would i.
my 2 cents:
I did put /tmp on tmpfs some time ago to minimize SSD churn without
really understanding the consequences. Later, i ran into several
problems, which turned out to be caused by /tmp running out of space.
After some investigation, i found the sweet
to...@tuxteam.de (12023-04-19):
> What I didn't like from the post is that it doesn't clearly
> state the downsides. Too much handwaving and repetition that
> "there are downsides" (well, duh), that "some applications
> rely on... " (what?). Then he goes on to explain alternatives.
“If I can't wri
he downsides. Too much handwaving and repetition that
"there are downsides" (well, duh), that "some applications
rely on... " (what?). Then he goes on to explain alternatives.
There is one downside to /tmp on tmpfs: it eats RAM. You gotta
have some of it (currently I've 9G fre
On 19/04/2023 11:30, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
That's what I meant above with "assuming you want a tmpfs..."
Some arguments for consideration may be found in
Summary: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useless
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/06/msg00311.html
That is linked from
https://
On Aug 30, 2016, at 5:00 PM, Ken Heard wrote:
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> I would like in my jessie and stretch boxes (one of each, both with
> systemd) to mount /tmp on tmpfs instead of a hard drive partition tmp
> or /dev/mapper/SOL1-tmp. I assum
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I would like in my jessie and stretch boxes (one of each, both with
systemd) to mount /tmp on tmpfs instead of a hard drive partition tmp
or /dev/mapper/SOL1-tmp. I assumed that to do so I could not have
either of those partitions; so I unmounted
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