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


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