[indiana-discuss] Status of CD/DVD software

[Richard Elling]

John Hawk wrote:
> Ok based on the information it looks like a CD-DVD Gui will get built.
> However, this begs the next question. It is my understanding that Indiana uses /tmp, /var/run
> and /etc/svc/volatile as swap, thus any tmp work for a DVD 8.5 or 4.7 GB would have to go to
> /var/tmp to be safe is that a fair and correct statement?
>
>   

Why?  Unless you are writing to an iso, there is no need for spooling
everything to a tmp location.  For example, Nautilus doesn't require a
large spool area, nor does Finder.
 -- richard