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150 points shaunpud | 2 comments | 29 Aug 25 02:39 UTC | HN request time: 0.4s | source

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rwmj ◴[29 Aug 25 07:06 UTC] No.45061087[source]▶

'systemctl mask tmp.mount' - the most important command to run in these situations.

It's a really bad idea to put /tmp into memory. Filesystems already use memory when necessary and spill to the filesystem when memory is under pressure. If they don't do this correctly (which they do) then fix your filesystem! That will benefit everything.

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1. nolist_policy ◴[29 Aug 25 07:12 UTC] No.45061129[source]▶

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You'd think that, but in ext4 the first write to a new file will hit the disk (the code mentions it is a workaround for something). Btrfs does it correctly.

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2. rwmj ◴[29 Aug 25 07:21 UTC] No.45061185[source]▶

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Sounds like fixing that ext4 problem could make a lot of things go faster.

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