Am 19.05.2011 23:16, schrieb Dan McGee:
[...] I will add that expecting everyone to have /tmp as a tmpfs is extremely limiting. I also disagree with your unbacked-with-facts conclusion that "99.99%" of people are satisfied with a /tmp on tmpfs; of my 5 machines running Arch only 2 have /tmp on tmpfs. I can think of several situations where this is just plain impractical: * Running on a VPS/VM with limited RAM * Any situation that requires /tmp to be bigger than the size of RAM (or even bigger than half of it) * Any setup where I have a highly performant RAID setup (or maybe SSDs are involved); being on disk will be just fine
In my opinion, /tmp as tmpfs is still a valid default for our fstab. The most common use case for Arch is a server, desktop or laptop with sufficient memory, where this is a good idea. In all other cases, a user has 2 choices: 1) Add sufficient swap space, then add size=10G to the tmpfs size. 2) Remove the tmpfs line from fstab. I don't feel strongly about this though.