#7300 NORM Never A: /tmp must be a tmpfs
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Wed Jun 18 13:38:04 EDT 2008
#7300: /tmp must be a tmpfs
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Reporter: martinlanghoff | Owner: mstone
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: Never Assigned
Component: distro | Version: Update.1
Keywords: | Verified: 0
Blocking: | Blockedby:
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We need to have /tmp be a tmpfs to save pointless NAND writes.
Programs that need to store sizable things in a tmpdir should use
/var/tmp, which will still be in NAND.
There is a long-standing tradition of having /tmp in volatile and
constrained storage (ie: ramdisks), so it is a bug for anything to write
large files there. I mention this because I think it's worthwhile to run a
quick check for users of /tmp to avoid unexpected breakage -- is olpc-
update (ab)using /tmp when it should use /var/tmp?
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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7300>
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