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 600531382C5 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2018 01:15:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D851FE0ABA; Fri, 9 Feb 2018 01:15:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from auth-3.ukservers.net (auth-3.ukservers.net [217.10.138.152]) (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 6D79DE0A91 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2018 01:15:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.137] (host86-173-156-145.range86-173.btcentralplus.com [86.173.156.145]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by auth-3.ukservers.net (Postfix smtp) with ESMTPSA id 723245403CF for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2018 01:15:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /var/tmp on tmpfs To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <63b383d1-e75d-097a-593a-6b955b482676@youngman.org.uk> From: Wol's lists Message-ID: <907ad1fa-b429-fd33-73c0-2997e8e42e6a@youngman.org.uk> Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2018 01:15:30 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.6.0 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 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 45e92aca-9562-4cfa-81a7-378be953b50a X-Archives-Hash: 493ff4601767a0604af3e3aa3045640c On 09/02/18 00:02, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 6:18 PM, Wol's lists 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