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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 18:44:42
Message-Id: 201105172043.15489.miknix@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: use of the /run directory by Nirbheek Chauhan
1 On Tuesday 17 May 2011 20:28:56 Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
2 > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:41 PM, Peter Volkov <pva@g.o> wrote:
3 > > В Втр, 17/05/2011 в 11:57 -0500, William Hubbs пишет:
4 > >> I think we should support the /run directory [1] [2].
5 > >>
6 > >> I, as well as several others, believe we should proactively create this
7 > >> directory ... What does everyone else think?
8 > >
9 > > I've read https://lwn.net/Articles/436012/ and that convinced me. Until
10 > > there is better solution, please, do it. Also I think it's good idea if
11 > > it'll be on tmpfs, as it should, from the very beginning.
12 >
13 > I'd add that if we want /run to be on tmpfs, /var/run and /tmp should
14 > both be on tmpfs by default. I've been doing this manually for a year,
15 > and so have other distributions.
16
17 The lwn article is definitely interesting to read, I welcome the new /run. I
18 wouldn't make /tmp as tmpfs though, there are some packages (wireshask I'm
19 looking at you) that can fill the directory fairly easy.
20
21 Regards,
22 --
23 Angelo Arrifano AKA MiKNiX
24 Gentoo Embedded developer
25 GPE maintainer
26 http://www.gentoo.org/~miknix
27 http://miknix.homelinux.com

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: use of the /run directory Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: use of the /run directory Peter Volkov <pva@g.o>