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Why this change? Writing to it will be faster than disk but idk if am is a precious commodity I’d rather it was just a part of the disk I was writing to.
by gigatexal 1y ago
Why this change? Writing to it will be faster than disk but idk if am is a precious commodity I’d rather it was just a part of the disk I was writing to.
- rwmj 1y agoIt's a dumb idea that came from the systemd people. They've never explained properly why it's a good idea, but it's the systemd default and for some reason distros defer to that.
- egorfine 1y agoNot at all. tmpfs precedes systemd for like a decade.
- rwmj 1y agoIt 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 1y agoOh no, tmpfs was introduced and used way before systemd.