Re: [gentoo-user] /var/tmp on tmpfs

[Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net>]

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On 02/08/2018 04:18 PM, Wol's lists wrote:
> EMPHATICALLY YES.

;-)

> /tmp is defined as being volatile - stuff can disappear at any time.

I don't know that I've ever had things in /tmp disappear "at any time" 
as in randomly and without external influence.  Usually it's a reboot or 
nightly maintenance scripts cleaning up old (regular) files (as opposed 
to sockets).

> /var/tmp is defined as the place where programs store stuff like crash 
> recovery files. Mounting it tmpfs is going to screw up any programs that 
> reply on that *defined* behaviour to recover after a crash.

Yup.

> Mounting /var/tmp/portage as tmpfs is perfectly fine as far as I know - 
> I do it myself.

I expect that portage, and many other programs, will recover from their 
contents under /var/tmp disappearing in between invocations.  But this 
is something that people need to be aware of.



-- 
Grant. . . .
unix || die


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