Am 01.06.2012 22:14, schrieb Chris Adams:
Once upon a time, Reindl Harald <h.reindl(a)thelounge.net> said:
> and that does also patch all applications back which starts
> using /var/tmp like "sort" as default for their temp-files?
I keep seeing sort as the primary example: how often are people sorting
multi-gigabyte files? I've been running with either a separate
partition for /tmp (1G-2G) or tmpfs for /tmp on servers and desktops for
many years now (10+). I have never had sort fail. The only time I
think I have had a problem was with some DVD-creator software some time
back that copied the video files to /tmp (dumb #1) and then tried to
create the ISO in /tmp and copy it out (dumb #2).
"sort" is only ONE application
you missed the point that packagers are enforced to change temp-dir
of their applications to /var/tmp instead /tmp and so it does not
help people only make their /etc/fstab-line for having /tmp
on their dedicated tmp-partition/disk
their rootfs would still be get written full from all sort of
applications - this changes mening any application using
/tmp for large files in fedora has to be patched using /var/tmp
the same impact for ANY application which could create large
temporary files (all sort of disk/iso images and so on)
P.S.:
yes, i am sorting daily files with some GB with "sort" and cronjobs and i find
it a little bit frustrating have to search for all it's usages and set "sort
-T"
because a useless feature with less benfit at all enforing packagers to change
the standard location away from /tmp