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On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Eray Aslan wrote: |
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> On 08/12/2010 09:48 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: |
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>> It says "Files under this directory", not "Files and directories under |
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>> this directory." |
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> Fair enough. |
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> So our policy basically is "tmpfs is not supported for /var/run" (and also |
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> for /var/lock I suppose). |
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it may have been in the past, but it's best to move forward and not |
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sit in the past |
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> It will be somewhat more work but instead of the above, we can say "tmpfs |
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> might be used for /var/run and /var/lock and the init scripts should handle |
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> this correctly". It feels (for want of a better word) better. |
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i certainly use a tmpfs on /var/run to minimize disk writes. packages |
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that break i file bugs for and/or fix myself. it isnt that hard. |
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plus, it's just good behavior. if /var/run gets removed for whatever |
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reason, people have to re-emerge a bunch of packages to simply create |
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a subdir ? that's silly. |
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-mike |
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