Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: use of the /run directory

[William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>]

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On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 10:20:56PM +0300, Panagiotis Christopoulos wrote:
> On 23:58 Tue 17 May     , Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
> > ... 
> > I'd add that if we want /run to be on tmpfs, /var/run and /tmp should
> > both be on tmpfs by default. I've been doing this manually for a year,
> > and so have other distributions.
> > 
> 
> Hi, 
> 
> A quick look at the size of my desktop's /tmp is: 
> 
> spirit@Vereniki ~ $ du -sh /tmp/
> 641M	/tmp/
> spirit@Vereniki ~ $ 
> 
> Maybe it's just me (cause of the way I'm using /tmp, eg. I use that dir
> to unpack sources of packages I want to temporarily look inside and
> for anything else *temporary*, also some programs (eg. browsers) use it
> for temporary storage) but if there are others like me, I don't
> think we'd like to do this in RAM space (tmpfs). For /run and /var/run
> dirs it's ok I suppose.

If you want /tmp to be a tmpfs, that is pretty easy to do through fstab
(I do that here actually). I'm not sure whether we want to force that on
a distribution level or not though.

The directories that would be affected by having /run on tmpfs would be
/var/run and /var/lock. The suggested way of doing this is to have
/var/run linked to /run and /var/lock linked to /run/lock.

William


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