Fedora 18 Will Stick To Using Tmpfs

[curaga]

Been using /tmp on tmpfs since 2006. Glad to see Fedora finally catching up

[varikonniemi]

Regarding the other case, installation process with a bajillion repos, I don't think that one even applies to begin with, since you can't use a /tmp on disk before the disk has been partitioned/formatted. The installation process, by definition, MUST have /tmp in RAM.

This also confused me, and according to the irc logs not even they really knew what that bug report was about.

[droidhacker]

Yeah, those two bugs are VERY much corner-cases. About VM's; you don't design your operating system for the purpose of being subservient to something else. You design it for the bare metal and just to not be exceedingly incompatible with VM's. It is definitely up to the user shoehorning it in to a VM to make trivial adjustments like this. The Fedora installer still provides configuration options for handling /tmp, its just set to DEFAULT to tmpfs.

Regarding the other case, installation process with a bajillion repos, I don't think that one even applies to begin with, since you can't use a /tmp on disk before the disk has been partitioned/formatted. The installation process, by definition, MUST have /tmp in RAM.

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Fedora 18 Will Stick To Using Tmpfs

It was decided at today's FESCo meeting to not disable the mounting of /tmp as a tmpfs file-system by default for the forthcoming Fedora 18 Linux release...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTI0MzY