Using TMPFS for /tmp and /var/run?

[Adrian Chadd]

On 30 March 2012 12:42, Chris Rees <crees at freebsd.org> wrote:

>> Guess what ext4 did? :)
>>
>> Don't mis-estimate POLA.
>
> Well, having thought about what this conversation was *really* about,
> I may have unintentionally derailed it a little.
>
> My original intention was to say to Oliver, please, don't be
> discouraged from using tmpfs for /tmp, and make sure you send PRs to
> the upstream of any programs that misbehave as such.
>
> Let's not make judgement on people who treat /tmp as persistent quite yet ;)

I'm not mis-judging anyone. :-) I'm just pointing out that things are
not always quite as obvious as they seem.

One of those reasons people stick/stuck with BSD is that we don't go
and change this stuff so quickly.

Adrian