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A deep dive into Debian 13 /tmp: What's new, and what to do if you don't like it

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150 points shaunpud | 1 comments | 29 Aug 25 02:39 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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Incipient ◴[29 Aug 25 05:23 UTC] No.45060518[source]▶
Using the example from the article, extracting an archive. Surely that use case is entity not possible using in-memory? What happens if you're dealing with a not-unreasonable 100gb archive?

Who runs around with 100gb+ of swap?!

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nolist_policy ◴[29 Aug 25 06:57 UTC] No.45061038[source]▶
Use `/var/tmp` of you want a disk backed tmp. Not sure why the article omits that.
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1. rwmj ◴[29 Aug 25 09:52 UTC] No.45062126[source]▶
And so you now have to make a decision, is this file small or large? This pushes the problem to users and programs. (A very real problem too, we made large changes throughout libguestfs to sort out "small" and "large" files and put them into /tmp or /var/tmp. Entirely unnecessary if /tmp wasn't tmpfs on some systems).