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Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 19:15:52 -0500
From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How can I control size of /run (tmpfs)?
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Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Sat, 26 May 2012 18:17:38 -0500
> Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> 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).
>
What I was saying tho, since it appears to be needed now, since /var may
not be mounted yet, it was created and is used during booting up. Since
it is there, why not use it, even AFTER the system is booted. After
all, the files are already there since they were put there during boot
up. No need moving them and all that when they are already created and
available.
Plus, as someone said, I think it was you in another reply, what if /var
fails to mount at all? At that point, it still works since /run is
there already. Since /run is on tmpfs, if it fails to mount for some
reason, you got issues already. ;-)
I don't mind it being there, I just hope udev, or whatever else may use
it later on, doesn't get memory hungry. Actually, maybe some other
small directories could be placed there as well. The lock files would
be a good one to start with. Just thinking. May want to duck tho. lol
Dale
:-) :-)
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