On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 09:27:16AM -0400, Brian Wheeler wrote: > > my biggest problem was that tmpfs by > > default allocates half of physical RAM for partition. So I just > > allocated big enough swap and added a line to /etc/fstab with > > appropriate size= option. > And how is a random user supposed to know this? In Soviet ALT Linux we didn't care about "random users" ;-)
In perfect world "random user" must be smart enough to read the documentation. However, this implies, that such documentation exists and easily accessed (which at first sight is true for Fedora). > So if things start acting up the answer is to add more swap and > mess with fstab? WTF? This is up to Release Managers. Reasonable defaults in installer, documentation, etc... > So now any software which uses /tmp for *gasp* temporary space > is now potentially broken depending on the size of the > temporary data. Well, no software should use /tmp directly, IMO. There's nice environment variable $TMPDIR. You can always point it to $HOME/tmp for example. And you can always turn it off if you really need to. > Sorry guys, this feature sucks. I like this feature, and there should be easy, well documented way to turn it off. I personally don't see a reason why it should be off by default. -- Regards, -- Sir Raorn. --- http://thousandsofhate.blogspot.com/
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