From: Panagiotis Christopoulos <pchrist@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: use of the /run directory
Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 23:20:59 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110517202059.GA13735@Vereniki.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=evoDeTi67qkx86t62wwPeN+oG_w@mail.gmail.com>
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On 01:18 Wed 18 May , Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
> ...
> Maybe you should use /var/tmp for that? Or ~/tmp/ ?
>
Yes, I can do that. But the real question here, from my perspective, is
why we need /run, /var/run or /tmp on tmpfs. "Other distros do it" is
not an answer. Yes, I needed those dirs on tmpfs twice in my life, once
when I was building a cluster with diskless nodes (with / on readonly
NFS) and once more when I was working with an "LTSP" alike system,
but these were exceptions, at that time.
As I don't have the knowledge for this and I currently don't have the
time to google/search it myself, can someone explain why other linux
distibutions / Unix systems (wikipedia says that Solaris had /tmp on
tmpfs from 1994) started putting directories on tmpfs and technically
speaking what an average user would benefit from having /run, /tmp etc.
directories on tmpfs?
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Panagiotis Christopoulos ( pchrist )
( Gentoo Lisp Project )
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Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-17 16:57 [gentoo-dev] rfc: use of the /run directory William Hubbs
2011-05-17 18:11 ` Peter Volkov
2011-05-17 18:28 ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2011-05-17 18:43 ` Ângelo Arrifano
2011-05-17 18:50 ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2011-05-17 19:11 ` Peter Volkov
2011-05-17 19:20 ` Ângelo Arrifano
2011-05-17 19:07 ` William Hubbs
2011-05-17 20:35 ` James Cloos
2011-05-17 20:40 ` Markos Chandras
2011-05-18 0:06 ` James Cloos
2011-05-18 0:43 ` William Hubbs
2011-05-17 19:20 ` Panagiotis Christopoulos
2011-05-17 19:46 ` William Hubbs
2011-05-18 1:31 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2011-05-18 1:36 ` [gentoo-dev] " Jeroen Roovers
2011-05-18 5:49 ` Eray Aslan
2011-05-18 14:45 ` Henry Gebhardt
2011-05-18 14:51 ` Samuli Suominen
2011-05-18 15:02 ` [gentoo-dev] " Jonathan Callen
2011-05-17 19:48 ` [gentoo-dev] " Nirbheek Chauhan
2011-05-17 20:00 ` Olivier Crête
2011-05-17 20:07 ` Michał Górny
2011-05-17 20:11 ` Amadeusz Żołnowski
2011-05-17 20:23 ` Rich Freeman
2011-05-17 20:20 ` Panagiotis Christopoulos [this message]
2011-05-17 20:28 ` Michał Górny
2011-05-17 20:54 ` Olivier Crête
2011-05-17 21:00 ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2011-05-17 22:26 ` Drake Wyrm
2011-05-17 22:36 ` Marc Schiffbauer
2011-05-17 22:46 ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2011-05-18 0:06 ` William Hubbs
2011-05-17 22:50 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2011-05-18 0:12 ` William Hubbs
2011-05-23 6:30 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2011-05-23 7:05 ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2011-05-23 7:11 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2011-05-23 7:13 ` Michał Górny
2011-05-23 8:30 ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2011-05-20 8:58 ` Luca Barbato
2011-05-20 16:54 ` Mike Pagano
2011-05-22 19:13 ` Luca Barbato
2011-05-22 21:12 ` Ondřej Súkup
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