[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#630615: RAMTMP should default to no

[Michael Biebl]

Package: initscripts
Version: 2.88dsf-13.10
Severity: important
File: /usr/share/initscripts/default.rcS

Hi,

the default for new installations is to use RAMTMP=yes.
I think having RAMTMP as optional feature is great, but it should
default to no, because this is the safer default:
- virtual machines are usually provisioned with only the minimal
  required amount of RAM.
- a typical hard disk is much bigger than RAM and thus /tmp on a typical
  installation provides much more space then RAM.
- software using /tmp to store large amounts of data, like backup
  programs, download managers etc.


Cheers,
Michael

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-2-486
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages initscripts depends on:
ii  coreutils                  8.5-1         GNU core utilities
ii  debianutils                4.0.2         Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                      2.13-7        Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  lsb-base                   3.2-27        Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  mount                      2.17.2-9.1    Tools for mounting and manipulatin
ii  sysv-rc                    2.88dsf-13.10 System-V-like runlevel change mech
ii  sysvinit-utils             2.88dsf-13.10 System-V-like utilities

Versions of packages initscripts recommends:
ii  e2fsprogs                     1.41.12-4  ext2/ext3/ext4 file system utiliti
ii  psmisc                        22.13-1    utilities that use the proc file s

initscripts suggests no packages.

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