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 D034B1382C5 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2018 23:28:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DE4A2E0B05; Thu, 8 Feb 2018 23:28:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from tncsrv06.tnetconsulting.net (tncsrv06.tnetconsulting.net [IPv6:2600:3c00::f03c:91ff:fe26:8849]) (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 6ED04E0A43 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2018 23:28:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from REDACTED ([IPv6:2620:0:102a:11:88a2:6a02:2147:8aa1]) (authenticated bits=0) by tncsrv06.tnetconsulting.net (8.15.2/8.15.2/Debian-3) with ESMTPSA id w18NSkvi009030 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2018 17:28:48 -0600 ARC-Filter: OpenARC Filter v0.1.0 tncsrv06.tnetconsulting.net w18NSkvi009030 Authentication-Results: tncsrv06.tnetconsulting.net; arc=none header.d=tnetconsulting.net ARC-Seal: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=tnetconsulting.net; s=2015; t=1518132528; cv=none; b=Lh8pArIyTFIQrukMCMnfTxOQYdOsQn0M4JpumJ3C7NeB0Ia3Edv1RTBe9L7ZVSxF1Tif1F93nIbv+ZdcjhQJAKi7mh1uE+2xA6+2P5Z24yhUuB6Zi2RrgZaOF7UUn9N0z87x+U9G3hlNegMLCxi5Uo1em0MqngJ0onMWLaeoaHs= ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=tnetconsulting.net; s=2015; t=1518132528; c=relaxed/simple; bh=2ZNuTtCbY0olcG00n4FW4pfbZr8Ba60i0WCISpMxm7E=; h=DKIM-Signature:Subject:To:From:Message-ID:Date:User-Agent: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=nWuEWZCMhOGFYj/BF1VVTTzg2zPUm0Dt2cDdUNciVqkYiREiTCvH9ArrdlQc5GLfu154c5Hxwfgn2Sx3kYiCpQMpS4mvDdixgC8m4sufB9N/zmdsIqMSlFDkCQkFaMKwkeWfekKD5y5NezGsbYm7173xoJ/eQOU/Su52VJ5j92k= ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; tncsrv06.tnetconsulting.net; none DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=tnetconsulting.net; s=2015; t=1518132528; bh=2ZNuTtCbY0olcG00n4FW4pfbZr8Ba60i0WCISpMxm7E=; h=Subject:To:References:From:Message-ID:Date:User-Agent: MIME-Version:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Cc:Content-Disposition: Content-Language:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:Date:From: In-Reply-To:Message-ID:MIME-Version:References:Reply-To: Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Sender:Subject:To: User-Agent; b=bU0XqRhgAiltOyPJxKuiwY2VzfFlT1GUNBiGNrAcR+F+4ghMejcdgiAmgzqS9UadE 5UNktNAEUlG92DCLoCzAeNhxIwg+a8VUZNaDE3U1P8tOc0osyKu0BdNKZ7lBqtL3vk DHtes622TWxc0hUuahH3qu03J5lrCVpJlRm0ARiM= Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /var/tmp on tmpfs To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <63b383d1-e75d-097a-593a-6b955b482676@youngman.org.uk> From: Grant Taylor Organization: TNet Consulting Message-ID: <619fe0f1-0b7e-6c8f-058d-f58ef8bb1e09@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net> Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2018 16:28:46 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.5.2 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 In-Reply-To: <63b383d1-e75d-097a-593a-6b955b482676@youngman.org.uk> Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pkcs7-signature"; micalg=sha-256; boundary="------------ms080702000308070706000502" X-Archives-Salt: a9e010ab-fc7d-4f8b-aacf-d4ddab02fe98 X-Archives-Hash: bea63b0a8c9fa1891fa7ed68a5c77b24 This is a cryptographically signed message in MIME format. --------------ms080702000308070706000502 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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"=20 as in randomly and without external influence. Usually it's a reboot or = nightly maintenance scripts cleaning up old (regular) files (as opposed=20 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 tha= t=20 > 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 -= =20 > I do it myself. I expect that portage, and many other programs, will recover from their=20 contents under /var/tmp disappearing in between invocations. 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