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On Tue, 17 May 2011 23:20:59 +0300 |
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Panagiotis Christopoulos <pchrist@g.o> wrote: |
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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 |
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> etc. directories on tmpfs? |
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For me, the most important advantage is that files get removed whenever |
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the system crashes for some reason. It's just simpler (and more error |
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prone) to have them gone automagically than to add services to remove |
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all of them on each boot. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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