On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 7:43 AM, Theo de Raadt <dera...@cvs.openbsd.org> wrote: >> /var/tmp has been changed to be a symlink to /tmp. Traditionally, >> the difference between /tmp and /var/tmp has been that the former is >> cleaned after a reboot, while the latter isn't. Making /var/tmp a >> symlink to /tmp means it's no longer practical to make /tmp a ramdisk. >> Is this a wise change? > > That distinction is a historical mistake. Read the commit message.
I also have /tmp as a tmpfs mount and my concern, in addition to vi.recover, is that the upgrade guide for 5.6 explicitly mentions backups of files replaced by sysmerge surviving a reboot in /var/tmp (at least for a few days). What will happen in 5.7? The commit message says that some daemons assume they will not run out of space in /var. Which ones? That seems like a really bad assumption.
