[Pkg-systemd-maintainers] Bug#718906: Bug#718906: systemd 204 mounts /tmp as tmpfs by default

[Michael Biebl]

Am 06.08.2013 22:00, schrieb Michael Stapelberg:
> Package: systemd
> Version: 204-2
> Severity: normal
> 
> I noticed that /tmp gets exhausted on codesearch.debian.net due to
> systemd 204 mounting /tmp as tmpfs by default, which is because of the
> file /lib/systemd/system/tmp.mount.
> 
> Personally, I don’t mind /tmp being a tmpfs mount and have that setup on
> most of my machines, but I feel that we should at least:
> 
> 1) Mention this fact in debian/NEWS.Debian
> 2) Explain to users how to disable mounting /tmp as a tmpfs. I suppose
>    referring to
>    http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/APIFileSystems/ is
>    good enough for now.

/tmp is not an API fs, fwiw, it's a regular mount unit.
See my previous email.

> I suppose we explicitly don’t want to support /etc/default/tmpfs to be
> consistent with getting rid of these files for other init scripts.

No, I don't think we should read that file.
What probably would make sense is have the same default behaviour as
sysvinit in that regard, though.


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