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From: "Amadeusz Żołnowski" <aidecoe@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: use of the /run directory
Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 20:12:20
Message-Id: 1305662978-sup-9642@ittemni
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: use of the /run directory by "Olivier Crête"
1 Excerpts from Olivier Crête's message of Tue May 17 22:00:41 +0200 2011:
2 > On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 01:18 +0530, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
3 > > Maybe you should use /var/tmp for that? Or ~/tmp/ ?
4 > >
5 > > OTOH, we could use an rc.conf configuration variable to control
6 > > whether /tmp is mounted as tmpfs.
7 >
8 > Having /tmp and /var/tmp as tmpfs sounds like a terrible idea.. I
9 > don't think we should facilitate it in any way.
10
11 I think he just meant that /var/tmp should be used for bigger temporary
12 stuff. This how I use it. /tmp for tiny temporary stuff and /var/tmp/
13 for bigger which would be good to have preserved between reboots. And
14 this is somehow correct with FHS afaik.
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