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 08F301382C5 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2018 00:02:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6D217E0B06; Fri, 9 Feb 2018 00:02:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pg0-x22e.google.com (mail-pg0-x22e.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c05::22e]) (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 E199FE0AE4 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2018 00:02:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pg0-x22e.google.com with SMTP id m28so2451107pgc.9 for ; Thu, 08 Feb 2018 16:02:12 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to; bh=NkFCs2R+c7uO4KNWK7gq3uNsaOsF1ub63Zh7/p//B20=; b=Ox9VhpL3j3NMD0GuAwQiNxZt3jwb6vXMU3kVSfxzYqa1jd4dcORbARM8zyYsyEM9R1 Na3iYr4L9w9ivGbftFPWRyW1o8UrPjFs6/GF1x0M4xLo2q3xu9px1ecT9HwfwxBB13Hl HuZW3HIQ7zZFAZennhDzmvjA9ZjAjqq3eznP4t2kRMlhxCNvkLa7Nd0L30UVYL5WoCQz 7OlJWwoCZiD2+qXl0RlOUjk5R9SqrItAPulZMr/nOLq+6xJtLATquolwIBQHCB4i8TMw ZzGF5bmtmkeL7sXbcs98TdX+TSvo8DC8PeWuoGg/krzSV4ycLjBBVFrgR2yJZbTMKBxr pEvQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from :date:message-id:subject:to; bh=NkFCs2R+c7uO4KNWK7gq3uNsaOsF1ub63Zh7/p//B20=; b=DFbI3T5SQw7nrDlnyO4jlonKxHFSTSYdKRVa8x64JvdC1vZKU62SRmVkgCaggBIlXv /yPaX5vBcsXVdzv7ekkB7qSzH86nXJerOqwax/6ExnHL0Rtm+CpmcZYDzzeAcOL7FdZM KhPlGD59D3MIr/Y2JHPufQPwalXbUtZfFzap0ozGVx66i3KfRz/F0iIs0jC5pAsmybDU aOGuUXzZrvCyFfgu+VbtqIKj3o1IbjWyL9GDnrp0FtIPSvTbZ0wLLAeha6PN8GY6XAfR La+U/6TAQF6qlZULphJQ8YRqXVkpdw3z7C7UpS6G2f+qAhoZumQPvARGHDvuuh669Ai2 jaUg== X-Gm-Message-State: APf1xPBoDGgKemiDctoq6e7rk/h+Nwd5qbkPAXLDjPNVcL4hiJTFkyfT vSh7d6nEHigEcoXnyjuDMDjqejZOfBX7VnBLDytvPA== X-Google-Smtp-Source: AH8x227fMeH3N9iUkcGEVSbQUPQlJpJDcC2DMxWr+48RB0kI/R0sWyYlY46kZ2jAj41CUjBVH+69Q8HVMdWIQHVdr2g= X-Received: by 10.98.12.144 with SMTP id 16mr771475pfm.147.1518134531304; Thu, 08 Feb 2018 16:02:11 -0800 (PST) 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 Sender: freemanrich@gmail.com Received: by 10.100.134.1 with HTTP; Thu, 8 Feb 2018 16:02:10 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <63b383d1-e75d-097a-593a-6b955b482676@youngman.org.uk> References: <63b383d1-e75d-097a-593a-6b955b482676@youngman.org.uk> From: Rich Freeman Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2018 19:02:10 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: cKs_zGuOXF5Uuj8w4ePOdOKJ5UI Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /var/tmp on tmpfs To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Archives-Salt: 8dabce43-13b8-4438-b0d5-f07607c54fc9 X-Archives-Hash: 06635b544a23bfff5e4609799642a4ad 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. /var/cache strikes me as a much better place for some kind of recovery file. While /var/tmp is typically less volatile than /tmp, it isn't really something that software should just rely on. Perhaps FHS says otherwise, but anybody relying on FHS is going to get burned because lots of distros purge /var/tmp. The problem with FHS is that nobody really bothers to try to update it any longer. Certainly people think twice before deviating it, but they still do from time to time, usually in the same ways that other distros deviate. -- Rich