On Mon, May 06, 2024 at 04:50:50PM +0100, Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote: > > tmpfiles.d snippets can be defined to cleanup on a timer _anything_, > > It's a question of what the *default* behaviour should be. > > For whatever reason, a lot of people who process large data use > /var/tmp/FOO/ as a place to store information that should not be > backed up, but also should not just disappear. To be honest I'm greatly surprised by this idea, and by the suggestion that a lot of people do this, to me this is very similar by that half-joke about people storing useful files in the Recycle Bin. But I also thought that "/tmp is on tmpfs, /var/tmp isn't, and that's their main difference" are our defaults for years, when they apparently aren't (now I understand why people sometimes suggest using /dev/shm or /run for this or that to increase performance).
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