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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: tester@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: use of the /run directory
Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 20:07:59
Message-Id: 20110517220727.7a23663f@pomiocik.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: use of the /run directory by "Olivier Crête"
1 On Tue, 17 May 2011 16:00:41 -0400
2 Olivier Crête <tester@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 01:18 +0530, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
5 > > Maybe you should use /var/tmp for that? Or ~/tmp/ ?
6 > >
7 > > OTOH, we could use an rc.conf configuration variable to control
8 > > whether /tmp is mounted as tmpfs.
9 >
10 > Having /tmp and /var/tmp as tmpfs sounds like a terrible idea.. I
11 > don't think we should facilitate it in any way.
12
13 I always thought we're having two separate temporary directories
14 because /tmp is for small data (i.e. suitable for tmpfs) while /var/tmp
15 is for larger one.
16
17 --
18 Best regards,
19 Michał Górny

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