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[David Kowis <dkowis AT shlrm.org>]

Arjan Bouter wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 07:27:52AM +0200, "Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik" wrote:
> I agree with Andraž here, they should not be tmpfs by default.
> IMHO the best thing would be to add them commented out.
> When installing smgl there are already lots of things to think about and
> it's quite easy to forget to disable tmpfs in fstab.

Yeah, if you want tmpfs and you know about it, then you can add it. 
tmpfs is a feature. It's not necessary to function. Therefore, it 
shouldn't exist by default. This is how we operate.

I'd thought I sent an email to the list stating all this already, but it 
must've gotten lost in the clogged up intertubes, so here's another :)

> Besides the FHS, not everyone has the option to install all the RAM they
> ever need...
> Take my own laptop as an example, I really do need to be carefull with
> the 320MB RAM in there (it's a hardware limit).

And there's that ;)

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