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 1QMQH6-0002KA-QT for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 17 May 2011 19:49:49 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7E2091C223; Tue, 17 May 2011 19:49:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C3311C080 for ; Tue, 17 May 2011 19:48:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyi11 with SMTP id 11so851376wyi.40 for ; Tue, 17 May 2011 12:48:45 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from :date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=ZOpcw10K9rNJ7oHS65PxKwJh4j5+iwSF/kAnAHW44wg=; b=QGox4EFCPiKzhtxwHFmyJhe0lme3GJ3X28T97kPhgCfFO28QwNSxAwKbGgwMK92+SC z3hs5MaPSbIJgeCFI6H/GzaMga5ZMwzFJpe0poh2V5LWzuYAxziJDYPwguLT/88wOQ6W 7g+rA6bAPOzRX/sQS/jaP9RL3OGf/k9E6/dkM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=LSeKONICha1+xiJYy4zmNHpECyfTzaX13458pcGkzUUkGdiDjhiOds4mhw907U8cAN /yrBOM3Thb7ScCTgAg/nGsfj1rUjlCX0vZWzyMsCQnSKMrawn9ntrRZntBBP6Vjwc5kE qQcGIbq6TYRsXiPiD/PG6F0aBQqWZB/red4+A= Received: by 10.216.232.146 with SMTP id n18mr965505weq.93.1305661725171; Tue, 17 May 2011 12:48:45 -0700 (PDT) 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 Sender: nirbheek.chauhan@gmail.com Received: by 10.216.23.79 with HTTP; Tue, 17 May 2011 12:48:25 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20110517192056.GA13002@Vereniki.lan> References: <20110517165748.GA3266@linux1> <1305655899.18096.4.camel@tablet> <20110517192056.GA13002@Vereniki.lan> From: Nirbheek Chauhan Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 01:18:25 +0530 X-Google-Sender-Auth: xw8lkca1Favxn6ngL8_ylbuvqOc Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: use of the /run directory To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: c278c6bc75372be9ce2b63200dc4414f On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 12:50 AM, Panagiotis Christopoulos wrote: > On 23:58 Tue 17 May =C2=A0 =C2=A0 , Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: >> ... >> 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. >> > > Hi, > > A quick look at the size of my desktop's /tmp is: > > spirit@Vereniki ~ $ du -sh /tmp/ > 641M =C2=A0 =C2=A0/tmp/ > spirit@Vereniki ~ $ > > Maybe it's just me (cause of the way I'm using /tmp, eg. I use that dir > to unpack sources of packages I want to temporarily look inside and > for anything else *temporary*, also some programs (eg. browsers) use it > for temporary storage) but if there are others like me, I don't > think we'd like to do this in RAM space (tmpfs). For /run and /var/run > dirs it's ok I suppose. > Maybe you should use /var/tmp for that? Or ~/tmp/ ? OTOH, we could use an rc.conf configuration variable to control whether /tmp is mounted as tmpfs. --=20 ~Nirbheek Chauhan Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team