[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#430814: Mount a tmpfs on /tmp if /tmp is too small

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Ian Jackson]
> The attached patch arranges that at boot time, if /tmp (or whatever
> is mounted there) has less than a certain amount of free space, a
> tmpfs will be mounted over the top.  This makes some parts of the
> system more robust in the face of disk full situations; in Ubuntu we
> are deploying this pursuant to our plan
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BootLoginWithFullFilesystem).

I like the idea, and believe it is a good idea to include in Debian
too. But can we in Debian be sure that the admin will be notified
about the full file system?  Where is that part implemented in Ubuntu?
Is the same feature present in Debian?

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen