On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 10:16:56PM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > So what are gentoo users' opinions on this matter of faith? > > I have long been in the camp that thinks tmpfs for /tmp has no > advantages (and may have disadvantages) over a normal filesystem like > ext3, because the files there are normally so small that they will stay > in the page cache 100% of the time. > > But I see that tmpfs is the default with systemd. Surely they have a > good reason for this? :)
for most purposes, it avoids thrashing your storage media with useless i/o. if your purposes are unusual, by all means change it back.
