From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SYORR-0001tf-Ny for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 26 May 2012 21:22:29 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 19C02E07BA; Sat, 26 May 2012 21:22:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bk0-f53.google.com (mail-bk0-f53.google.com [209.85.214.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AE37E07AF for ; Sat, 26 May 2012 21:20:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkcjk13 with SMTP id jk13so1752550bkc.40 for ; Sat, 26 May 2012 14:20:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=OxCZCWUhMidSFtloRx6VR2JzJCRJFYDG5LDYsz1tYKY=; b=CVzJuycOOn5+7SYujss2omB9Y4uQP+uy8lLBK3b9FP4XCNkwXhqBjFBv1W2lJVCeTU VRik3MCYv2fteN9ZDuuiN+3yopbTydFlsd0pNptsh6RWWOft7F/ZtyQTp5/iRcSFEYjQ 9bT+cqiStkTKf3bXOgHaDrR6f6h8DJkF/GH082F+d9BnjTUqjZXwj3cdiyQvci4c6Lo/ BRaLybR91h9R5FbPjuecUVIGISsZcfguvhGj69lrZCAikQzqlbZ43BH3v0rBkuOHB6qD eviaSwZhch2MmQQlqJly/5eBclgrzUM3MY6ZOksw5MH0e+P/MRfmbAU13LMd1Frz0C2e Zj9Q== 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 Received: by 10.204.153.6 with SMTP id i6mr1303361bkw.114.1338067249107; Sat, 26 May 2012 14:20:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.42.207 with HTTP; Sat, 26 May 2012 14:20:49 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4FC144D5.1080904@hadt.biz> References: <4FC1332A.3040703@gmail.com> <4FC1368E.7080005@gmail.com> <4FC13850.2020802@gmail.com> <4FC13CE2.5060309@gmail.com> <4FC144D5.1080904@hadt.biz> Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 21:20:49 +0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How can I control size of /run (tmpfs)? From: Michael Mol To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 43462b1b-7bc5-4c06-97ca-f20c127c618d X-Archives-Hash: b157398e562ce00d071a413c3f514adf On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 9:02 PM, Michael Hampicke wrote: [snip] > As Michael Mol already said, tmpfs for the run dir is not a bad thing, > it, it does not eat all your ram :) > I however have a different question: Why do we need a new /run when we > already have /var/run. There's no mention of /run in the FHS either. > I only see udev stuff under /run - So it's another crazy udev thing? :) Neil had the best response to that, IMO: "It makes sure that /run is available and writeable early in the boot process, whereas /var/run may not be and / may be mounted ro." -- :wq