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On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 10:18:35PM +0000, Duncan wrote: |
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> Richard Freeman <rich0@g.o> posted 4791F359.1050500@g.o, |
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> excerpted below, on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 07:55:53 -0500: |
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> > I think that this would probably warrant an elog. Sure, anybody who |
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> > knows the "correct" way to admin unix doesn't put anything important in |
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> > /tmp - but educating our users before blowing away their data isn't a |
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> > bad thing. We shouldn't assume our users are idiots, but this is an |
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> > obscure enough piece of admin knowledge that I think that users will be |
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> > impacted by the change. |
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> Obscure? It's the directory name (says another with both /tmp and /var/ |
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> tmp on tmpfs). How much less obscure can you get than announcing it |
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> every time the path is referenced or specified? Who could reasonably |
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> argue that tmp doesn't mean tmp? |
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Tmp has never meant "erase at restart", because restarts are often not |
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predictable. Tmp has sometimes meant things like "erased after a |
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week", or "erased when space gets low", but never "erased after |
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restart" which is just unusable. |
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Frankly, if I'm writing a long email (which mutt stores in /tmp) and a |
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powerloss makes it gone even if I was saving it from time to time |
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while I was writing it, I'll get annoyed. Severely annoyed. |
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It's just another bug of the FHS that shoule be ignored. |
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OG. |
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