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Temporary files: RAM or disk?Temporary files: RAM or disk?Posted Jun 2, 2012 11:40 UTC (Sat) by th0ma7 (guest, #24698)Parent article: Temporary files: RAM or disk?
A sort of "unionfs" over a regular /tmp (or /tmp over the / partition for that matter) in conjunction of a tmpfs with priority to use RAM space 1st would solve most of the problems... no?
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Temporary files: RAM or disk? Posted Jun 2, 2012 18:35 UTC (Sat) by ncm (subscriber, #165) [Link]
A common cautionary tale template has an engineer confronting a problem and choosing a shortcut: "... and then the engineer had two problems". Unionfs has fundamental shortcomings that make it a problem where its usage pattern is not severely constrained.
How would this work, exactly? Would a daemon move big files out of tmpfs /tmp to a shadowed on-disk /tmp? This might steer clear of unionfs's shortcomings.
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