[RFC] XDG_RUNTIME_DIR

[Thiago Macieira]

On Wednesday, 10 de November de 2010 22:17:40 Ryan Lortie wrote:
> /tmp is also often used to store "largeish" things like downloads in
> progress.

I've had /tmp in tmpfs for over 4 years now and I barely ever needed it 
extended. I think the only app that did need it was the VMWare Server, because 
it used a file in /tmp as swap memory. So from experience, tmpfs /tmp works 
just fine for normal use.

Having a large-ish partial download on a different mountpoint from the target 
directory seems like a bad idea to me. That means a big copy job after the 
download finishes.

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