Tobias Nygren <tnn%NetBSD.org@localhost> writes: > The purpose of /var/tmp is to be a globally writable temp directory. > If you do "ktrace gcc -o test test.c" you will find that the gcc + > binutils toolchain too creates many temporary files there, unless -pipe > is used. A good solution to preserve the life of your ssd is to mount > tmpfs on /tmp and /var/tmp. But beware that this breaks virecover. That's all kind of true, except that /var/tmp is supposed to persist and tmp is not. So it seems broken for anything to put ephemera in /var/tmp. I see your point that gcc does this too. Do you know why they made that choice?
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