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Re: Using /var/tmp instead of /tmp

From: Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 10:21:47 -0700

On Jun 29, 2017, at 3:48 AM, John Thacker <johnthacker () gmail com> wrote:

I believe the main reason is that Fedora defaults /tmp to tmpfs 
(https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/tmp-on-tmpfs) which thus limits it to the size of RAM (half that, at 
default).


Does Linux not have a *virtual* memory-based tmpfs, such as the one that Sun developed back in the late 1980's, 
allowing pages from temporary files either to be in memory or swap space?
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