On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 09:34:52PM +0100, Timo Sirainen wrote: [...]
So why was the move made in the first place? Because a) some people had small (maybe ramfs) /tmp and Dovecot was eating it all up and b) to
On Solaris, this is the situation, though it's not called ramfs but:
lgb@hydra:/tmp$ uname -a SunOS hydra 5.10 Generic_141444-09 sun4v sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-T200 lgb@hydra:/tmp$ df -h . Filesystem size used avail capacity Mounted on swap 16G 0K 16G 0% /tmp lgb@hydra:/tmp$ swap -l swapfile dev swaplo blocks free /dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/swap 256,1 16 33554416 33554416
Yes, this machine has some RAM and enough swap zvol as well, but still there can be machines with less resources too, and in Solaris /tmp is not a "normal" filesystem anyway ...
/var/tmp is available though, and it's a "normal" filesystem ...