Re: Lets (eventually) find a good solution for /tmp

2012-06-12 Thread Serge
2012/6/12 Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote: > The real issue here is that having /tmp be just another directory in a > writable partition filesystem, like / or /home or whatever, means that > /tmp gets all the associated properties. One such property (A) is > that files can be large and can bleed off t

Re: Lets (eventually) find a good solution for /tmp

2012-06-12 Thread Barak A. Pearlmutter
Don is right. I'd like to step up a level and think about the situation. The real issue here is that having /tmp be just another directory in a writable partition filesystem, like / or /home or whatever, means that /tmp gets all the associated properties. One such property (A) is that files can

Re: Lets (eventually) find a good solution for /tmp

2012-06-11 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 06/11/2012 12:06 AM, Don Armstrong wrote: > > swap file on / [...] is > > really the direction that we should be going > NO ! Some imprecise language on my part has apparently lead to some misunderstanding of what I am suggesting. I don't mean a swa

Re: Lets (eventually) find a good solution for /tmp

2012-06-11 Thread Aneurin Price
On 11 June 2012 15:21, Simon McVittie wrote: > On 11/06/12 15:01, Aneurin Price wrote: >> as far as I am aware a swap file is the better >> choice in virtually all situations > > Assuming > is > still current: > > If you want to

Re: Lets (eventually) find a good solution for /tmp

2012-06-11 Thread George Danchev
On Monday 11 June 2012 16:01:10 Aneurin Price wrote: > On 10 June 2012 19:31, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > On 06/11/2012 12:06 AM, Don Armstrong wrote: > >> swap file on / [...] is > >> really the direction that we should be going > > > > NO ! > > > > Does this need to be explained? :/ Hi, > Not

Re: Lets (eventually) find a good solution for /tmp

2012-06-11 Thread Simon McVittie
On 11/06/12 15:01, Aneurin Price wrote: > as far as I am aware a swap file is the better > choice in virtually all situations Assuming is still current: If you want to use hibernation (suspend-to-disk), you need roughly[0] as m

Re: Lets (eventually) find a good solution for /tmp

2012-06-11 Thread Aneurin Price
On 10 June 2012 19:31, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 06/11/2012 12:06 AM, Don Armstrong wrote: >> swap file on / [...] is >> really the direction that we should be going > NO ! > > Does this need to be explained? :/ > Not quite sure what you're objecting to. If you are against the use of swap files

Re: Lets (eventually) find a good solution for /tmp

2012-06-10 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 02:31:36AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 06/11/2012 12:06 AM, Don Armstrong wrote: > > swap file on / [...] is > > really the direction that we should be going > NO ! > > Does this need to be explained? :/ Perhaps? Please point me at the msg-id of the explanation if I

Re: Lets (eventually) find a good solution for /tmp

2012-06-10 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 06/11/2012 12:06 AM, Don Armstrong wrote: > swap file on / [...] is > really the direction that we should be going NO ! Does this need to be explained? :/ Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@li