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 1QMQtz-0004t4-FF for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 17 May 2011 20:29:59 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4D2641C0FB; Tue, 17 May 2011 20:29:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 228361C0C2 for ; Tue, 17 May 2011 20:28:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pomiocik.lan (178-37-177-230.adsl.inetia.pl [178.37.177.230]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: mgorny) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 62CD51B4014; Tue, 17 May 2011 20:28:45 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 22:28:49 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?TWljaGHFgiBHw7Nybnk=?= To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Cc: pchrist@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: use of the /run directory Message-ID: <20110517222849.75d9a641@pomiocik.lan> In-Reply-To: <20110517202059.GA13735@Vereniki.lan> References: <20110517165748.GA3266@linux1> <1305655899.18096.4.camel@tablet> <20110517192056.GA13002@Vereniki.lan> <20110517202059.GA13735@Vereniki.lan> Organization: Gentoo X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.9 (GTK+ 2.24.3; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) 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-SHA256; boundary="Sig_/F734ZnxBV.8dar1t=H5FkO8"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 9056f013bda2247cf50f936eeef6e8ef --Sig_/F734ZnxBV.8dar1t=H5FkO8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 17 May 2011 23:20:59 +0300 Panagiotis Christopoulos 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?=20 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. --=20 Best regards, Micha=C5=82 G=C3=B3rny --Sig_/F734ZnxBV.8dar1t=H5FkO8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iJwEAQEIAAYFAk3S2oEACgkQfXuS5UK5QB3dlAQAhO58HTzBYVVHedTZGCXo/Rrn OPgdpHsFLB7GCYVZ6kfKIxIdyNK6wL3k5giMBCNbCoe5iR+ZtM+1BpREh9aKWh4Z iJZiwRHozldj5AMWrvNnzCXnS6iTyvxH1Hvr9oQN2hQ8Li+oM5vQHbFkUikN1tA2 kvZzMnF8+bLbiRvKpWg= =Pie4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/F734ZnxBV.8dar1t=H5FkO8--