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 1QMPG5-0006Nj-Vw for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 17 May 2011 18:44:42 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E61C81C14C; Tue, 17 May 2011 18:44:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A2701C035 for ; Tue, 17 May 2011 18:43:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from blau64.ninho.local (unknown [2.82.17.124]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: miknix) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 44E931B4014; Tue, 17 May 2011 18:43:44 +0000 (UTC) From: =?utf-8?q?=C3=82ngelo_Arrifano?= Organization: Gentoo Linux To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: use of the /run directory Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 20:43:15 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.38-gentoo-r4; KDE/4.6.2; x86_64; ; ) References: <20110517165748.GA3266@linux1> <1305655899.18096.4.camel@tablet> In-Reply-To: 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: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <201105172043.15489.miknix@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: ed83051bcbe2f35c8fc0ea253966e112 On Tuesday 17 May 2011 20:28:56 Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:41 PM, Peter Volkov wrote: > > =D0=92 =D0=92=D1=82=D1=80, 17/05/2011 =D0=B2 11:57 -0500, William Hubbs= =D0=BF=D0=B8=D1=88=D0=B5=D1=82: > >> I think we should support the /run directory [1] [2]. > >>=20 > >> I, as well as several others, believe we should proactively create this > >> directory ... What does everyone else think? > >=20 > > I've read https://lwn.net/Articles/436012/ and that convinced me. Until > > there is better solution, please, do it. Also I think it's good idea if > > it'll be on tmpfs, as it should, from the very beginning. >=20 > 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. The lwn article is definitely interesting to read, I welcome the new /run. = I=20 wouldn't make /tmp as tmpfs though, there are some packages (wireshask I'm= =20 looking at you) that can fill the directory fairly easy. Regards, =2D-=20 Angelo Arrifano AKA MiKNiX Gentoo Embedded developer GPE maintainer=20 http://www.gentoo.org/~miknix http://miknix.homelinux.com