On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 7:37 AM, Michael Biebl <bi...@debian.org> wrote:
> Afaik, Ubuntu is the only Linux distro which supports and uses tmpfs by > default. The OpenEmbedded distros do this too, I've especially seen that the ones associated with OpenMoko do that. In addition the pkg-fso folk's Debian for OpenMoko installer script puts /var/run, /var/lock on a tmpfs and presumably when d-i supports the OpenMoko devices that will be the default on such devices. > Again, if there would be a list of cons, I'd be much happier in supporting > this > new policy. Unfortunately I only see disadvantages. I guess you mean pros rather than cons. One would be that it reduces the number of useless writes to disk/flash, which could be important for mobile situations like phones. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
