> To mandate RAM allocation in this way will take many people, including > myself, by surprise.
It's been this way on Fedora for over two years (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/tmp-on-tmpfs). Most other new distributions do it, too. From that feature page, "Solaris has been doing this since 1994. (Much like other Unixes, too.) Debian's next release defaults to tmpfs on /tmp, too. ArchLinux defaults to this as well. Ubuntu has plans for their 12.10 release." There's basically no disagreement about it among the distributions. > 50% of RAM is a *lot* of RAM, with serious performance impacts, and I do not > do this on my systems. You know that it's not a static allocation, right? If you're only using a few KB of /tmp, the file system is only consume a few KB. 50% is just the absolute maximum that can be used, and it's a default which can be controlled via mount option (or /lib/systemd/system/tmp.mount Options=size=... with systemd). I think you should do some investigation on how tmpfs works, and the benefits of this configuration before jumping to incorrect conclusions. On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 12:51 PM, <benf...@parts-unknown.org> wrote: > Justin Brown writes: > >> Complaints about this >> sort of thing are either a failure of the user or software developer >> to keep up to date on the file system standards. > > > My understanding was that file system hierarchy was supposed to be about how > files are arranged so that they would be consistent across distributions. It > should not be about whether we put file systems in RAM or on RAID or on any > particular medium. > > To mandate RAM allocation in this way will take many people, including > myself, by surprise. For many users, 50% of RAM is a *lot* of RAM, with > serious performance impacts, and I do not do this on my systems. > > > -- > David Benfell > See https://parts-unknown.org/node/2 if you do not understand the > attachment. > > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org > -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
