On Wed, 19 Apr 2023 09:52:23 +0200 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: ...
> One case where tmpfs for /tmp makes a ton of sense is when you want > to have most things read only (or read mostly), because your devices > die from too much writes (the Raspi/SD pattern, for example -- note > that I wrote SD, not SSD: no monster thread on that, please ;-) To be fair to the post [0] mentioned earlier, while the subject line was provocative, the post itself explicitly acknowledges that tmpfs for /tmp does make sense in some cases, although you may disagree that they're as "rare" as it claims :) "Mounting /tmp to tmpfs may be a good thing in some rare cases, but it's a bad default. It breaks a lot of things and, which is more important, brings nothing good." [0] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/06/msg00311.html -- Celejar
