From: Wol's lists <antlists@youngman.org.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /var/tmp on tmpfs
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2018 01:15:30 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <907ad1fa-b429-fd33-73c0-2997e8e42e6a@youngman.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGfcS_mftPorirSC_eOnVD2vbjNf7W3fxs+JmX9BVyEypcSmJg@mail.gmail.com>
On 09/02/18 00:02, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 6:18 PM, Wol's lists<antlists@youngman.org.uk> wrote:
>> /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.
>>
> Care to cite an example of such a program in the Gentoo repo? I
> certainly can't think of any, and I've been running with /var/tmp on
> tmpfs for over a decade.
I don't know of any. I was involved with the LSB ages ago, and they were
involved with the FHS, and that was just one of the things I picked up -
the FHS specifically says /var/tmp is for files that are temporary but
not volatile - files that programs are supposed to clean up behind them
but are saved if the program is prevented from deleting them.
Cheers,
Wol
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-09 1:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-08 17:11 [gentoo-user] /var/tmp on tmpfs gevisz
2018-02-08 17:47 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2018-02-08 18:13 ` Rich Freeman
2018-02-08 19:05 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2018-02-08 19:42 ` Rich Freeman
2018-02-08 21:52 ` gevisz
2018-02-08 21:57 ` Rich Freeman
2018-02-08 22:16 ` gevisz
2018-02-09 1:50 ` Dale
2018-02-09 11:52 ` gevisz
2018-02-08 22:32 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2018-02-08 21:31 ` gevisz
2018-02-08 22:19 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2018-02-08 22:32 ` gevisz
2018-02-08 22:38 ` Rich Freeman
2018-02-08 22:50 ` Tsukasa Mcp_Reznor
2018-02-09 10:07 ` gevisz
2018-02-09 11:00 ` Neil Bothwick
2018-02-08 23:42 ` Grant Taylor
2018-02-10 18:56 ` Kai Krakow
2018-02-10 19:38 ` Wols Lists
2018-02-10 19:52 ` Kai Krakow
2018-02-10 20:06 ` Rich Freeman
2018-02-10 21:13 ` Kai Krakow
2018-02-10 21:20 ` Wol's lists
2018-02-10 22:17 ` Kai Krakow
2018-02-08 19:17 ` [gentoo-user] " Dale
2018-02-08 19:41 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2018-02-09 1:31 ` Dale
2018-02-08 19:50 ` [gentoo-user] " Rich Freeman
2018-02-09 1:24 ` Dale
2018-02-09 10:55 ` gevisz
2018-02-10 19:01 ` [gentoo-user] " Kai Krakow
2018-02-08 21:57 ` [gentoo-user] " gevisz
2018-02-09 1:35 ` Dale
2018-02-08 20:56 ` Grant Taylor
2018-02-08 23:18 ` Wol's lists
2018-02-08 23:28 ` Grant Taylor
2018-02-09 0:02 ` Rich Freeman
2018-02-09 1:15 ` Wol's lists [this message]
2018-02-09 2:15 ` [gentoo-user] " Ian Zimmerman
2018-02-09 11:57 ` gevisz
2018-02-10 19:11 ` Kai Krakow
2018-02-09 8:11 ` [gentoo-user] " Neil Bothwick
2018-02-09 10:12 ` Peter Humphrey
2018-02-09 10:58 ` Neil Bothwick
2018-02-10 19:06 ` [gentoo-user] " Kai Krakow
2018-02-09 10:30 ` [gentoo-user] " gevisz
2018-02-09 10:57 ` Neil Bothwick
2018-02-09 10:58 ` Gerrit Kühn
2018-02-09 22:03 ` Grant Taylor
2018-02-10 19:08 ` [gentoo-user] " Kai Krakow
2018-02-10 18:02 ` Kai Krakow
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