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| 2024-06-05 |
Debian developers discuss /tmp |
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The Debian project team has been discussing the /tmp directory, used for storing temporary files, and how to best manage this location for years. Many other distributions now treat /tmp as part of memory, storing files in RAM for better performance and easier clean-up. Some distributions go a step further and automatically clean /tmp, purging it of any files periodically. The Debian project has, to date, kept /tmp on disk and avoided deleting files without warning. This may change soon: "Debian Developer and systemd contributor Luca Boccassi recently decided it was time to revisit the topic of /tmp as a tmpfs, and start deleting temporary files in /tmp and /var/tmp.
On May 6 Boccassi resurrected a discussion from Debian's bug tracker that started in 2020 and that had trailed off in July 2022 without resolution. The bug was submitted by Eric Desrochers, who complained that Debian's systemd implementation did not clean /var/tmp by default. Michael Biebl wrote that this was a deliberate choice to match Debian's pre-systemd behavior. After a long period of inactivity, Biebl suggested in October 2021 (and again in July 2022) that Desrochers raise the topic on the Debian devel mailing list. That never happened.
In reviving the topic, Boccassi declared that it was time to bring Debian's defaults in line with upstream and other Linux distributions by making /tmp a tmpfs, and cleaning up /tmp and /var/tmp on a timer." LWN has the rest of the story and its outcome. |
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