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Paul de Vrieze posted <200602151605.41286.pauldv@g.o>, excerpted |
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below, on Wed, 15 Feb 2006 16:05:40 +0100: |
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> In principle they are multi-boot combinable. However "/var/tmp" is |
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> supposed to be cleaned less than "/tmp". Preferably only when space is an |
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> issue. Portage for example stores things there like the ccache cache. |
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> While removing it will not cause any problems, the cache is then |
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> destroyed, so things go slower. /var/tmp is more meant for stuff that is |
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> temporary, but saves time, while /tmp is for stuff that is just temporary |
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> (often very shortly) and may be destroyed any time. |
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Correct in general, but this reply is on the ccache thing more than /tmp |
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and /var/tmp. |
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I had entirely forgotten the default ccache location, if I ever knew it in |
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the first place, as I added ccache and changed that setting very early in |
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my Gentoo setup, I believe before I had even completed the emerge |
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--emptytree system. CCache has never been in the default location on my |
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box. Originally, I had it as its own dedicated partition as well, but |
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when I did the reorganization for my RAID upgrade, I put it on a subdir of |
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4-way striped RAID-0 array partition, sharing the partition with similar |
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subdirs for /usr/src and the portage tree. All three of those need no |
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redundancy as the contents are are easily redownloadable from the net or |
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in the case of ccache, regenerated automatically if destroyed, all three |
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tend to have many small files, so reiserfs is the perfect managment |
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strategy, and all three can benefit from the speed of the 4-way striped |
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RAID-0 as well, so it made sense to put them together on a shared |
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partition. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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