On Tue, 17 May 2011 16:00:41 -0400 Olivier Crête wrote: > On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 01:18 +0530, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: > > Maybe you should use /var/tmp for that? Or ~/tmp/ ? > > > > OTOH, we could use an rc.conf configuration variable to control > > whether /tmp is mounted as tmpfs. > > Having /tmp and /var/tmp as tmpfs sounds like a terrible idea.. I > don't think we should facilitate it in any way. I always thought we're having two separate temporary directories because /tmp is for small data (i.e. suitable for tmpfs) while /var/tmp is for larger one. -- Best regards, Michał Górny