From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: pchrist@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: use of the /run directory
Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 22:28:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110517222849.75d9a641@pomiocik.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110517202059.GA13735@Vereniki.lan>
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On Tue, 17 May 2011 23:20:59 +0300
Panagiotis Christopoulos <pchrist@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 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?
For me, the most important advantage is that files get removed whenever
the system crashes for some reason. It's just simpler (and more error
prone) to have them gone automagically than to add services to remove
all of them on each boot.
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Best regards,
Michał Górny
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-17 20:29 UTC|newest]
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
2011-05-17 20:28 ` Michał Górny [this message]
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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