Ben Hutchings wrote: > As will /tmp on a small root partition. > As will a small dedicated /tmp partition.
The differences between these cases and forcing tmpfs by default is that in the above cases, the person who installed the system chose those partition sizes. They are therefore responsible for the breakage they caused, and they can reason about this: "I told it to make / 200 mb, so of course it can't write a CD iso there", and fix it. However, the user who slaps a 2 terabyte disk in, and puts Debian on it, has not made a choice that explains why Debian fails to burn a CD due to having ignored all that disk space behind their back. > We should be thinking about implementing per-user temporary directories > and making sure that programs respect $TMPDIR. Absolutely, but it's orthagonal to breaking previously sane defaults in the size of /tmp. -- see shy jo
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