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From: "Gerrit Kühn" <gerrit.kuehn@aei.mpg.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /var/tmp on tmpfs
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2018 11:58:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180209115813.50e10cf8e99b028f76960f1a@aei.mpg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+t6X7cYJJhcrwdOSOi93HK72mmAOmW1jaZChVkY8emirMaL9w@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 9 Feb 2018 12:30:21 +0200 gevisz <gevisz@gmail.com> wrote about
Re: [gentoo-user] /var/tmp on tmpfs:

> > Why mess around with another tmpfs? Just set PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/tmp" in
> > make.conf. Job done!
> 
> It is an interesting idea. But why it is not done by default then?
> 
> Can somebody think of a situation when it should not be done?

/var/tmp/portage may take up quite some space, and not everybody will want
to have that on a RAM-based fs.


cu
  Gerrit


  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-02-09 10:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-08 17:11 [gentoo-user] /var/tmp on tmpfs gevisz
2018-02-08 17:47 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2018-02-08 18:13   ` Rich Freeman
2018-02-08 19:05     ` Nikos Chantziaras
2018-02-08 19:42       ` Rich Freeman
2018-02-08 21:52     ` gevisz
2018-02-08 21:57       ` Rich Freeman
2018-02-08 22:16         ` gevisz
2018-02-09  1:50           ` Dale
2018-02-09 11:52             ` gevisz
2018-02-08 22:32         ` Nikos Chantziaras
2018-02-08 21:31   ` gevisz
2018-02-08 22:19     ` Nikos Chantziaras
2018-02-08 22:32       ` gevisz
2018-02-08 22:38         ` Rich Freeman
2018-02-08 22:50           ` Tsukasa Mcp_Reznor
2018-02-09 10:07             ` gevisz
2018-02-09 11:00             ` Neil Bothwick
2018-02-08 23:42         ` Grant Taylor
2018-02-10 18:56           ` Kai Krakow
2018-02-10 19:38             ` Wols Lists
2018-02-10 19:52               ` Kai Krakow
2018-02-10 20:06                 ` Rich Freeman
2018-02-10 21:13                   ` Kai Krakow
2018-02-10 21:20                   ` Wol's lists
2018-02-10 22:17                     ` Kai Krakow
2018-02-08 19:17 ` [gentoo-user] " Dale
2018-02-08 19:41   ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2018-02-09  1:31     ` Dale
2018-02-08 19:50   ` [gentoo-user] " Rich Freeman
2018-02-09  1:24     ` Dale
2018-02-09 10:55       ` gevisz
2018-02-10 19:01     ` [gentoo-user] " Kai Krakow
2018-02-08 21:57   ` [gentoo-user] " gevisz
2018-02-09  1:35     ` Dale
2018-02-08 20:56 ` Grant Taylor
2018-02-08 23:18   ` Wol's lists
2018-02-08 23:28     ` Grant Taylor
2018-02-09  0:02     ` Rich Freeman
2018-02-09  1:15       ` Wol's lists
2018-02-09  2:15         ` [gentoo-user] " Ian Zimmerman
2018-02-09 11:57           ` gevisz
2018-02-10 19:11       ` Kai Krakow
2018-02-09  8:11     ` [gentoo-user] " Neil Bothwick
2018-02-09 10:12       ` Peter Humphrey
2018-02-09 10:58         ` Neil Bothwick
2018-02-10 19:06           ` [gentoo-user] " Kai Krakow
2018-02-09 10:30       ` [gentoo-user] " gevisz
2018-02-09 10:57         ` Neil Bothwick
2018-02-09 10:58         ` Gerrit Kühn [this message]
2018-02-09 22:03         ` Grant Taylor
2018-02-10 19:08         ` [gentoo-user] " Kai Krakow
2018-02-10 18:02 ` Kai Krakow

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