[Serge] > Well, nobody named the benefits yet. [Wouter Verhelst] > - You could mount your mail spool there, and make things go blazingly > fast [1] [...] > - There's no danger of a symlink attack or similar with things like > tmpreaper -- or indeed any need for tmpreaper anymore. You reboot the > system, and /tmp is clean again, no matter what was there before. This > is more than just a convenience.
I've happily been using tmpfs on /tmp/ for probably ten years now, and can list some more benefits: - It allow diskless setups like LTSP to work the same way the default installation in Debian work. They use read-only NFS-mounted file systems and a writable tmpfs mounted on /tmp/. - It reduces the number of disk writes on a laptop, allowing it to spin down the disk a bit longer. -- Happy hacking, Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2fltxymku23....@login2.uio.no
