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		rwmj 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A deep dive into Debian 13 /tmp: What's new, and w... It only became the default on Fedora and other Linux distros following systemd because it was the default in systemd. It was a bad idea on Solaris too, but at least back in those days the trade-off between RAM and disk storage was very different from today now we have NVME drives and such.

egorfine 7 months ago [–]

Oh no, tmpfs was introduced and used way before systemd.

blueflow 7 months ago | | [–]

Which was contested by no-one. He complained about systemd switching /tmp to tmpfs, not systemd people making or causing tmpfs in general.

rwmj 7 months ago | | [–]

I'm well aware. I used it on Solaris.

egorfine 7 months ago | | [–]

Solaris/SunOS. Oh those were good times. Cheers, mate!

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