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William Hubbs posted on Tue, 17 May 2011 14:46:49 -0500 as excerpted: |
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> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 10:20:56PM +0300, Panagiotis Christopoulos |
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>> On 23:58 Tue 17 May, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: |
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>> > ... |
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>> > I'd add that if we want /run to be on tmpfs, /var/run and /tmp should |
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>> > both be on tmpfs by default. I've been doing this manually for a |
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>> > year, and so have other distributions. |
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> If you want /tmp to be a tmpfs, that is pretty easy to do through fstab |
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> (I do that here actually). I'm not sure whether we want to force that on |
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> a distribution level or not though. |
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> The directories that would be affected by having /run on tmpfs would be |
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> /var/run and /var/lock. The suggested way of doing this is to have |
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> /var/run linked to /run and /var/lock linked to /run/lock. |
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Absolutely true. |
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I've run /tmp on tmpfs (with /var/tmp a symlink to it tho that took a bit |
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of additional setup) for some time now and love it, but it's easy enough |
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to do for those that want it that way, and controversial enough for others |
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that IMO Gentoo doesn't need to get into that policy game, /especially/ |
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not when it unnecessarily complicates the otherwise entirely separate |
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/run discussion. |
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So let's leave /tmp (and /var/tmp) well enough alone and concentrate on |
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the subject at hand, /run and the /var/run symlinks to it. |
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Since I'm posting, I'd personally prefer keeping things pretty much as |
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they are, or arguably creating a /dev/run for the same benefits without a |
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new root directory. But I'm resigned to the fact that what will be will |
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be, and /run seems to have enough momentum behind it that it will be. |
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Given that, we might as well get it over with and get /run in place now, |
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before our lack of it starts causing serious problems and we have to |
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develop workarounds that must then be undone when we finally /do/ break |
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down and go with /run. |
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So reluctantly... but I say go for it. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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