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Am Thu, 08 Feb 2018 19:02:10 -0500 schrieb Rich Freeman: |
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> On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 6:18 PM, Wol's lists <antlists@××××××××××××.uk> |
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> wrote: |
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>> /var/tmp is defined as the place where programs store stuff like crash |
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>> recovery files. Mounting it tmpfs is going to screw up any programs |
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>> that reply on that *defined* behaviour to recover after a crash. |
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> Care to cite an example of such a program in the Gentoo repo? I |
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> certainly can't think of any, and I've been running with /var/tmp on |
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> tmpfs for over a decade. |
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> /var/cache strikes me as a much better place for some kind of recovery |
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> file. While /var/tmp is typically less volatile than /tmp, it isn't |
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> really something that software should just rely on. |
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I don't think that /var/cache is a better choice here. Cache directories |
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should be treated as data that could be rebuilt at ANY time. That's |
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certainly not true for crash dump files. They simply don't belong there. |
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Thus, crash dumps should go to non-volatile directories like /var/tmp. |
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Regards, |
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Kai |
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