[Mageia-dev] [Mageia-discuss] many systemd temporary directories

[David W. Hodgins]

On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:51:09 -0400, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:

> 'Twas brillig, and Florian Hubold at 24/04/12 21:27 did gyre and gimble:
>> Am 24.04.2012 20:51, schrieb Juergen Harms:
>>> I just saw that systemd creates (and does not purge) lots of directories like
>>> /tmp/systemd-namespace-<uniqueid>/ - I now have nearly 50 of them (one
>>> partial explanation might be that I did quite some re-booting these last days).
>>>
>>> Nothing serious, they are small - but nevertheless ... Is this normal,
>>> shouldnt there be some automatic purging mechanism?
>>>
>>> Juergen
>>>
>> Maybe we should default to /tmp being on tmpfs so that
>> this gets purged on every reboot? This would also be more
>> in accordance with FHS imho.
>
> This is one of my goals for mga3 (I have it in my notes for the
> technical specs discussion that will come), but certainly not for mga2
> as this is quite a big change and some apps may have to be patched to
> use /var/tmp instead etc. if they store large things in there.

As long as it's still optional. With only 2GB of ram, I prefer to
keep /tmp on disk, since I use it for things like dvd creation etc.

Regards, Dave Hodgins