/tmp is a like a litter box. From a user perspective, I'm happy to have it emptied
regularly, because clearly the cats don't clean up their own doodles. That one of the
cats might think he's deposited something valuable that he'll come back for
someday, is hilarious to me, as well as ridiculous.
My only concern about it being on tmpfs instead of on disk, is how big it could get, how
much memory could be held hostage, until there's a reboot. I'd rather see it be
both size and age limited (each item has a decay rate or something), so that it's
evacuated more regularly than just between reboots - which could be months.
Chris Murphy