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From: "Ângelo Arrifano" <miknix@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: use of the /run directory
Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 19:21:25
Message-Id: 201105172120.21684.miknix@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: use of the /run directory by Peter Volkov
1 On Tuesday 17 May 2011 21:11:12 Peter Volkov wrote:
2 > В Втр, 17/05/2011 в 20:43 +0200, Ângelo Arrifano пишет:
3 > > On Tuesday 17 May 2011 20:28:56 Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
4 > > > I'd add that if we want /run to be on tmpfs, /var/run and /tmp should
5 > > > both be on tmpfs by default. I've been doing this manually for a year,
6 > > > and so have other distributions.
7 > >
8 > > The lwn article is definitely interesting to read, I welcome the new
9 > > /run. I wouldn't make /tmp as tmpfs though, there are some packages
10 > > (wireshask I'm looking at you) that can fill the directory fairly easy.
11 >
12 > Hm, may be I miss something... but how wireshark fills /run? As far as I
13 > see dumps go into /tmp.
14 >
15 > --
16 > Peter.
17
18 Either one of us is needing a break away from the computer to relax the eyes,
19 which one is it? :P
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