Bug#637089: linux-2.6: tmpfs doesn't allow reserving blocks to the super user

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From	Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
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Subject	Bug#637089: linux-2.6: tmpfs doesn't allow reserving blocks to the super user
Date	Fri, 25 Apr 2025 10:40:01 +0200
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Hi Aurelien,

On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 03:10:22PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> Package: linux-2.6
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> More and more people are using a tmpfs filesystem for /tmp, and it is
> even something supported by the init scripts we ship. Contrary to most 
> other filesystems, there is no space reserved to the superuser. Given 
> any user can write to /tmp, and thus fully fill it. This breaks plenty
> of things like upgrade of packages using debconf, so tmpfs should
> definitely support having some blocks reserved to the super user.

I think this one should be closed on Debian end, if there is still
desire to have such support implemented (we do not have) it might need
to be brought to upstream.

Do you agree on closure?

Regards,
Salvatore

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Bug#637089: linux-2.6: tmpfs doesn't allow reserving blocks to the super user Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org> - 2025-04-25 10:40 +0200
  Bug#637089: linux-2.6: tmpfs doesn't allow reserving blocks to the super user Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org> - 2025-04-25 22:10 +0200

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