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[DOCS] Add note about /tmp removal #95166

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7 changes: 7 additions & 0 deletions docs/reference/setup/sysconfig/executable-jna-tmpdir.asciidoc
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Expand Up @@ -51,3 +51,10 @@ also configure the path that JNA uses with the <<set-jvm-options,JVM flag>>
temporary files by setting the `LIBFFI_TMPDIR` environment variable. Future
versions of {es} may need additional configuration, so you should prefer to set
`ES_TMPDIR` wherever possible.

NOTE: {es} does not clear out the `/tmp` directory, as this could be an
unwelcome behavior in the event of a power outage or an Out of Memory error.
Instead, it's expected that temporary directories are cleaned out automatically
by the system on events such as a reboot. This is the behavior with the Linux
link:https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/filesystems/tmpfs.html[tmpfs]
file system, for example.