On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 11:40:57PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > Subject: Why do we have to support tmpfs for /var/run (policy changes in > 3.8.1) > > Hi, > > one of the changes in 3.8.1 was, that support for tmpfs on /var/run (and > /var/tmp) became mandatory [9.3.2]. Lintian is now also complaining very > loudly > (error) if your package ships a directory in /var/run or /var/tmp and suggests > to create them in the init script. > > While I can see the benefits of having /var/tmp on a tmpfs to a certain > degree, > I don't really see them for /var/run, instead they make things more > complicated, > slower and error prone (for imho no real gain)
Interesting - The unix way IMHO was that /tmp looses content on reboot
while /var/tmp did not. This had been the case for commercial Unices
for at least some decades.
Flo
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