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Temporary files.

Posted Mar 16, 2009 3:24 UTC (Mon) by k8to (subscriber, #15413)
In reply to: Temporary files. by mgb
Parent article: Ts'o: Delayed allocation and the zero-length file problem

All Linux filesystems are good choices for tmp.

This allows linux to avoid the idiocy of solaris's tmpfs where writing a large file to /tmp can crash the box.

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Temporary files.

Posted Mar 16, 2009 15:22 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Alternatively you could use... tmpfs! Writing a large file to /tmp isn't
going to crash the box unless you explicitly raised the size limits
on /tmp...