Reindl Harald wrote:
Am 06.04.2012 14:58, schrieb Ralf Corsepius:
Brasero, k3b and applications for scanning will probably need patches.
No idea, what you are intending to do. These apps use huge amounts of temporary data. Amounts of data, its devs probably considered to be too big to be stored in memory and thus decided to store them in /tmp. A fully legitimate use case.
Also consider that the required size of data in /tmp can very dynamic and be very different in different use-cases. This is a fact people often do not notice causes unexpected surprises to them (e.g. when launching some heavy-weight compile job).
I hope some of these bugs were fixed,
Are you seriously calling storing temporary files into /tmp to be bugs?
this si another story where i do not understand the intention of developers by making useless changes for non-broken things
it is NOT a bug of any application using /tmp for large files
it is a bug in the distribution put /tmp as default in RAM why do people believe it is a solution to "fix" applications storing their temp-files below /var/tmp
/var/tmp is for data you expect to be here ven after reboot congratulations to the idea store temporary iso-images there with the effect the systemdisk of many normal users starts to get full becuse "tmpwatch" does not clean up them
everybody who thinks /tmp should be a tmpfs and beeing sure he has enough RAm for this can do it all the time in fstab
what is the benefit/improvement making this as default? will we start finally tell people using eclipse and firefox on notebooks with 4 GB of RAM that this is not enough for a modern linux-system because with the additional memory pressure their machines starting to get unuseable?
A big +1 to both Ralf and Harald. The more I think about the change, the less I like it (and I never got the point in the first place). K3b is most definitely going to be broken by it. Having to change /tmp to /var/tmp almost everywhere is not helpful, plus if /var/tmp indeed doesn't and won't get cleaned, that's also a problem. It might be more helpful to have the tmpfs directory use a new namespace (/tmp/volatile or something like that) instead of the existing and heavily-used /tmp.
Kevin Kofler