From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 23D6D1382C5 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2018 10:58:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8F804E0C64; Fri, 9 Feb 2018 10:58:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from umail2.aei.mpg.de (umail2.aei.mpg.de [194.94.224.8]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1C688E0C4A for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2018 10:58:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailgate.aei.mpg.de (mailgate.aei.mpg.de [194.94.224.5]) by umail2.aei.mpg.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13BE71BAB4EA for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2018 11:58:16 +0100 (CET) Received: from mailgate.aei.mpg.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id F3F49406ADE for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2018 11:58:15 +0100 (CET) Received: from intranet.aei.uni-hannover.de (ahin1.aei.uni-hannover.de [130.75.117.40]) by mailgate.aei.mpg.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD894406ADB for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2018 11:58:13 +0100 (CET) Received: from arc.aei.uni-hannover.de ([130.75.117.1]) by intranet.aei.uni-hannover.de (IBM Domino Release 9.0.1FP8) with ESMTP id 2018020911581276-174834 ; Fri, 9 Feb 2018 11:58:12 +0100 Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2018 11:58:13 +0100 From: Gerrit =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=FChn?= To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /var/tmp on tmpfs Message-Id: <20180209115813.50e10cf8e99b028f76960f1a@aei.mpg.de> In-Reply-To: References: <63b383d1-e75d-097a-593a-6b955b482676@youngman.org.uk> <20180209081129.685e8b1a@digimed.co.uk> Organization: Max Planck Gesellschaft X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.5.1 (GTK+ 2.24.31; amd64-portbld-freebsd11.0) 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 X-MIMETrack: Itemize by SMTP Server on intranet/aei-hannover(Release 9.0.1FP8|February 23, 2017) at 09/02/2018 11:58:12, Serialize by Router on intranet/aei-hannover(Release 9.0.1FP8|February 23, 2017) at 09/02/2018 11:58:12, Serialize complete at 09/02/2018 11:58:12 X-TNEFEvaluated: 1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-PMX-Version: 6.0.2.2308539, Antispam-Engine: 2.7.2.2107409, Antispam-Data: 2018.2.9.104815 X-PerlMx-Spam: Gauge=X, Probability=10%, Report=' TO_IN_SUBJECT 0.5, HTML_00_01 0.05, HTML_00_10 0.05, MIME_LOWER_CASE 0.05, BODYTEXTP_SIZE_3000_LESS 0, BODY_SIZE_1000_LESS 0, BODY_SIZE_2000_LESS 0, BODY_SIZE_400_499 0, BODY_SIZE_5000_LESS 0, BODY_SIZE_7000_LESS 0, IN_REP_TO 0, LEGITIMATE_SIGNS 0, MSG_THREAD 0, NO_URI_HTTPS 0, REFERENCES 0, __ANY_URI 0, __BOUNCE_CHALLENGE_SUBJ 0, __BOUNCE_NDR_SUBJ_EXEMPT 0, __CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __FORWARDED_MSG 0, __FRAUD_BODY_WEBMAIL 0, __FRAUD_WEBMAIL 0, __HAS_FROM 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __HAS_X_MAILER 0, __IN_REP_TO 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_TEXT_P 0, __MIME_TEXT_P1 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __NO_HTML_TAG_RAW 0, __REFERENCES 0, __SANE_MSGID 0, __SUBJ_ALPHA_END 0, __SUBJ_ALPHA_NEGATE 0, __TO_IN_SUBJECT 0, __TO_MALFORMED_2 0, __TO_NO_NAME 0, __URI_NO_WWW 0, __URI_NS ' X-Archives-Salt: b560df46-c6d9-4dfa-96f8-08c8770364a5 X-Archives-Hash: 054dd79b354fa9eeb34e597c9351e476 On Fri, 9 Feb 2018 12:30:21 +0200 gevisz wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] /var/tmp on tmpfs: > > Why mess around with another tmpfs? Just set PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/tmp" in > > make.conf. Job done! > > It is an interesting idea. But why it is not done by default then? > > Can somebody think of a situation when it should not be done? /var/tmp/portage may take up quite some space, and not everybody will want to have that on a RAM-based fs. cu Gerrit