Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > There's a perfectly fine way to specify that you want a tmpfs mount of a > particular size on /tmp: /etc/fstab. I don't know why sysv-rc added > another special extension for this rather than just letting people use > the standard interface.
sysv-rc already needed code to mount various other tmpfs filesystems, such as /run and /run/shm.