From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QMQm2-0004Nf-Ap for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 17 May 2011 20:21:46 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A1D1F1C0C2; Tue, 17 May 2011 20:21:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B654E1C06C for ; Tue, 17 May 2011 20:21:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vereniki.bit-level.net (unknown [83.212.181.218]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: pchrist) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 84FD31B4010 for ; Tue, 17 May 2011 20:21:03 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 23:20:59 +0300 From: Panagiotis Christopoulos To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: use of the /run directory Message-ID: <20110517202059.GA13735@Vereniki.lan> References: <20110517165748.GA3266@linux1> <1305655899.18096.4.camel@tablet> <20110517192056.GA13002@Vereniki.lan> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="UlVJffcvxoiEqYs2" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 10ea8ffaffbf309176180eac43e38888 --UlVJffcvxoiEqYs2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 01:18 Wed 18 May , Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: > ...=20 > Maybe you should use /var/tmp for that? Or ~/tmp/ ? >=20 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.=20 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?=20 --=20 Panagiotis Christopoulos ( pchrist ) ( Gentoo Lisp Project ) --UlVJffcvxoiEqYs2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAk3S2KsACgkQOsV5uRvANlYkfQCgh6JUnLmva8ZVvS96uqxecuxF VvwAniDzTq2N+A4+6QtY5NICCuUlisvB =xqbH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --UlVJffcvxoiEqYs2--