On Sep 27, 2009, at 12:05 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote:

Toby Thain <t...@telegraphics.com.au> wrote:

at least as of RHFC10. I have files in /tmp
going back to Feb 2008 :-). Evidently, quoting Wikipedia,
"tmpfs is supported by the Linux kernel from version 2.4 and up."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TMPFS, FC1 6 years ago. Solaris /tmp
has been a tmpfs since 1990...

The question wasn't "who was first".

BTW: Solaris has tmpfs since late 1987.

It is a de-facto standard since then as it e.g. helps to reduce compile times.

Yep, and before that, there was just an rc script to rm everything in / tmp.
No rocket science needed :-)
 -- richard

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