Re: Partition naming conventions

[Dave Cuthbert <dacut@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> The alternative for /tmp is to have lots of swap and MFS for /tmp.
> This is often faster and avoids the lots of old crap in /tmp problem.

Ooh, I like this idea.

One of the things I've liked about Solaris is the way /tmp is mounted on 
swap and is purged upon every reboot.  This does break a few (IMHO 
broken) scripts, though, that expect /tmp to survive a reboot.

I'm still puzzling over Microsoft's decision to eliminate /tmp (well, 
ok... c:\temp) in favor of a per-user /tmp equivalent.  I can't quite 
figure out what security flaw this addresses that isn't addressed by a 
proper use of permissions (or, better, ACLs) and/or mkstemp().