Bug #1954
installer creates /tmp/ as HAMMER pfs instead of tmpfs
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Description
Shouldn't we default to having /tmp/ as tmpfs instead of HAMMER?
History
Updated by alexh about 10 years ago
On 07/01/11 08:34, Peter Avalos (via DragonFly issue tracker) wrote:
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> New submission from Peter Avalos <peter@theshell.com>:
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> Shouldn't we default to having /tmp/ as tmpfs instead of HAMMER?
I don't think that's a good idea. If someone wants their /tmp as tmpfs,
then they can do so easily enough by changing the fstab entry.
The main reason against this is, imo, that tmpfs is a memory file
system and can hence be problematic on machines with limited RAM and/or
large files in the /tmp directory.
Regards,
Alex
Updated by ftigeot about 9 years ago
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Wouldn't that be a non-issue if the installer configures the machine with enough swap ?
Updated by pavalos about 9 years ago
I think for new installations we should default to tmpfs, but maybe add some logic in there that detects low RAM/swap situations. This could be similar to the way we handle HAMMER installs. We don't want people to install a HAMMER fs if their disk is too small, which is comparable to the issue of having too little memory for tmpfs.
Updated by ftigeot about 9 years ago
This comes down to how much is too little memory ?
Looking at a few different machines, I see a typical /tmp uses only a few kilobytes.