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On 01:18 Wed 18 May , Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: |
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> ... |
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> Maybe you should use /var/tmp for that? Or ~/tmp/ ? |
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Yes, I can do that. But the real question here, from my perspective, is |
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why we need /run, /var/run or /tmp on tmpfs. "Other distros do it" is |
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not an answer. Yes, I needed those dirs on tmpfs twice in my life, once |
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when I was building a cluster with diskless nodes (with / on readonly |
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NFS) and once more when I was working with an "LTSP" alike system, |
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but these were exceptions, at that time. |
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As I don't have the knowledge for this and I currently don't have the |
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time to google/search it myself, can someone explain why other linux |
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distibutions / Unix systems (wikipedia says that Solaris had /tmp on |
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tmpfs from 1994) started putting directories on tmpfs and technically |
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speaking what an average user would benefit from having /run, /tmp etc. |
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directories on tmpfs? |
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Panagiotis Christopoulos ( pchrist ) |
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( Gentoo Lisp Project ) |
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