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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