On 06/01/2012 11:35 AM, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Gerry Reno <greno(a)verizon.net>
wrote:
> This "feature" may have some benefits but I think they are infinitesimally
small.
The feature may be adopted/promoted on the basis of SSD writecycle
preservation, but tmpfs also offers considerable performance
improvements for workloads that create/remove files in /tmp at high
speed— which is the reason that many people have been using tmpfs for
/tmp on many systems for much longer than SSDs have existed.
Well, I don't have any workloads that are doing high-speed create/remove of file in
/tmp.
And I don't think most people have any of those types of workloads either.
Wouldn't it make sense that people with those types of workloads could enable /tmp on
tmpfs?
Rather than making it the default for everyone.
.