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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

by rwmj 1y ago

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 1y ago
Oh no, tmpfs was introduced and used way before systemd.
- rwmj 1y ago
  I'm well aware. I used it on Solaris.
  - egorfine 1y ago
    Solaris/SunOS. Oh those were good times. Cheers, mate!
- blueflow 1y ago
  Which was contested by no-one. He complained about systemd switching /tmp to tmpfs, not systemd people making or causing tmpfs in general.