Eh? Yes, if I untar a file in /tmp, it will go there. My whole post talks about putting files in tmp! And this change is a performance killer for that reason

Eh? Yes, if I untar a file in /tmp, it will go there. My whole post talks about putting files in tmp! And this change is a performance killer for that reason. Taking all that juicy, super fast RAM away from system caches and buffers, which yes is a performance killer. You want sensible defaults. Telling people they can change a dumb default to something smart, isn't a viable response. I mean my god, you say you've been using linux for 20+ years, so you surely know, doing this for a performance gain is absurd! We have mega fast SSDs, and an elegant filesystem layer, writing to disk is immensely fast compared to spinning disk days. We gain almost nothing here, and lose RAM caching of libraries, data, buffers, which the kernel is very, very good at these days too. It's a dumb default. Immensely so! And statement like "you can just" aren't the point. This slows almost every single system down. You know, this could be done right. Instead of stomping on everyone, just create a new tmpfs for just this purpose. Let people use it if they want. And why on earth suddenly start forcing file cleaning. Debian has not had that default in decades, changing it now because someone else called redhat does it, isn't a valid excuse. Debian doesn't need to be more like redhat.