On 06/01/2012 08:56 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 01.06.2012 20:14, schrieb Simo Sorce: >> On Fri, 2012-06-01 at 12:58 -0500, Chris Adams wrote: >>> Once upon a time, Simo Sorce <s...@redhat.com> said: >>>> On Fri, 2012-06-01 at 11:02 -0500, Chris Adams wrote: >>>>> Once upon a time, Reindl Harald <h.rei...@thelounge.net> said: >>>>>> thank you for breaking setups of well thought virtual machines >>>>>> on expensive SAN storages with a as small as possible rootfs >>>>>> with a own virtual disk for /tmp with new defaults >>>>> >>>>> If you are mounting a filesystem on /tmp, it'll be in /etc/fstab and >>>>> still work exactly as before (if not, that's a bug and should be treated >>>>> as such). >>>> >>>> Chris, the problem is that now you have to add a /tmp filesystem, >>>> before /tmp was just a normal directory in root. >>> >>> Did you read what I was replying to? My understanding of it was about >>> already using a separate /tmp filesystem. >> >> I read it but I have misunderstood. I would hope people that already >> have /tmp in fstab see no changes. > > but they do and this is was Chris Adams do not understand because he only > reads what he has quoted and not what was the reason for my reply which > gives "Did you read what I was replying to" a special taste > > patching applications for "/var/tmp rather than /tmp" is a real problem > for people which are smart enough to know why they introduced a seperated > disk for /tmp > > this changes means that the crap no longer goes to /tmp and will hit in > the future rootfs because switch to /var/tmp > _______________________________ > > HERE AGAIN THE FULL QUTOE TO GET BACK CONTEXT! > >>> So I'll patch sort to default to /var/tmp rather than /tmp >> thank you for breaking setups of well thought virtual machines >> on expensive SAN storages with a as small as possible rootfs >> with a own virtual disk for /tmp with new defaults
So what if _existing_ systems write to /var/tmp in the above setup? /var/tmp is there already so it needs to be handled. Seems like you should link /var/tmp to /tmp to handle that. And/Or you should probably set TMPDIR=/tmp system wide to enforce this non standard setup. If you do that, then as well as closing the existing loophole, you make the system immune to future changes in this area as apps should honor $TMPDIR before using their defaults of /var/tmp or /tmp or /whatever cheers, Pádraig. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
