Temporary files: RAM or disk?

Temporary files: RAM or disk?

Posted Jun 8, 2012 20:23 UTC (Fri) by jackb (subscriber, #41909)
In reply to: Temporary files: RAM or disk? by Wol
Parent article: Temporary files: RAM or disk?

Gentoo shoves all its compiles into /tmp.

As long as I've been using it compiling has always been done in /var/tmp, not /tmp.

Mounting /var/tmp/portage on tmpfs is not the default behavior but has become extremely common. For large packages like Chromium or LibreOffice there are ways to override the default PORTAGE_TMPDIR to point to a non-tmpfs directory.

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