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Date:      Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:44:31 -0700
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
To:        Chris Rees <crees@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, "C. P. Ghost" <cpghost@cordula.ws>, sthaug@nethelp.no
Subject:   Re: Using TMPFS for /tmp and /var/run?
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On 30 March 2012 12:42, Chris Rees <crees@freebsd.org> wrote:

>> Guess what ext4 did? :)
>>
>> Don't mis-estimate POLA.
>
> Well, having thought about what this conversation was *really* about,
> I may have unintentionally derailed it a little.
>
> My original intention was to say to Oliver, please, don't be
> discouraged from using tmpfs for /tmp, and make sure you send PRs to
> the upstream of any programs that misbehave as such.
>
> Let's not make judgement on people who treat /tmp as persistent quite yet ;)

I'm not mis-judging anyone. :-) I'm just pointing out that things are
not always quite as obvious as they seem.

One of those reasons people stick/stuck with BSD is that we don't go
and change this stuff so quickly.

Adrian



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