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 1SYQMx-0005qM-AU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 26 May 2012 23:25:59 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 94543E07AB; Sat, 26 May 2012 23:25:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-f175.google.com (mail-wi0-f175.google.com [209.85.212.175]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30B32E05AF for ; Sat, 26 May 2012 23:24:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wibhn6 with SMTP id hn6so540894wib.10 for ; Sat, 26 May 2012 16:24:25 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:organization :x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Cjww/zFHP1o1BMu4JB/TwmaIplUpo4Zw7DvxbH9ZyNE=; b=JENxQsTuOqSXnv8rdVPtoY/Gfyk2Jlmi6O4qS+kFnIuy1ECfHO4kWhhPPP68MENlFq wB8O/DuTqIU+7AK8L4EGJ/gASTNWT1kG02obxf6LiyMYBAntXXRjgiu1X0OGaqJFxPIK 1ZwSEBdsegevKb/CD8H+Ejh01/Kv8TSxwpXNW40+mHgeUsDx174YcsqCRiiaA2sqab4e M5+Svixwnh3ay76lt9zvPrYCdrFKdt8FatmKwKJ+onCteqLsYmAwiftG+b0A0G4xvw3W Iwxm6svV4i2PuLlrZUD6p48fCaknYZcKd/Yi9yzuvFHc0TIB40FkAysLcTzuccODmy7D 2GVQ== Received: by 10.216.199.75 with SMTP id w53mr1878044wen.14.1338074665430; Sat, 26 May 2012 16:24:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from khamul.example.com ([196.215.209.80]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id q6sm9160220wiy.0.2012.05.26.16.24.22 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 26 May 2012 16:24:24 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 27 May 2012 01:21:05 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How can I control size of /run (tmpfs)? Message-ID: <20120527012105.284de0e6@khamul.example.com> In-Reply-To: <4FC16492.5020603@gmail.com> References: <4FC1332A.3040703@gmail.com> <4FC1368E.7080005@gmail.com> <4FC13850.2020802@gmail.com> <20120526214001.0668531f@digimed.co.uk> <4FC15692.9070507@gmail.com> <20120526233444.670274c8@digimed.co.uk> <4FC16492.5020603@gmail.com> Organization: Internet Solutions X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 806c54d8-9987-4bd1-8487-f6b8e597cabc X-Archives-Hash: 259c1a877cec91cf9c28857876498b82 On Sat, 26 May 2012 18:17:38 -0500 Dale wrote: > It > appears that /run is sort of a temp thing while booting and just sort > of sticks around after getting booted, since it is there anyway. Why > not use it? No, that is incorrect. /run is a deliberate design decision (and a damn good one that should always have been there IMHO) and it sticks around because it is supposed to. It's not an after-effect that just happens to be useful, it's the entire objective. Think of it in the same way you think of /dev, /proc and /sys: There are there, there are guaranteed to be there with certain behaviours, and you can't change that (neither should you want to). -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com