On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 13:21:47 +0100
Didier Raboud <o...@debian.org> wrote:
> Salvo Tomaselli wrote:
>
> >> I think the problems you describe are quite uncommon. Yes, there are use
> >> cases where tmpfs for /tmp isn't the best solution but I think most
> >> people do not place 1.2GB files in their /tmp and benefit greatly from
> >> tmpfs.
> >
> > I thought DVD burners were quite common... and almost every desktop or
> > laptop has one. And a DVD is 4GiB when not 7. And usually burning software
> > lets you decide if you want to 1st create an iso and then burn it.
>
> Given that any burning software can (approximately) determine what size the
> ISO file will be, it should really not start to write it in /tmp when the
> /tmp size is not big enough (which the software can also check). Prompting a
> user with "I will not be able to write ${file} in /tmp, please point me to a
> location where I can." should not be too much of a problem.
>
>
>
Hi would the real solution be to make /tmp dynamic ?, that would allow for dual
layer burning and
blueray, or is that easier said than done.
The other area where a large /tmp is needed is video streaming, especially if
you are generating a
video and putting down a USB port for external encoding to DVB-T or DVB-S., but
that's a specialised
application.
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