On 09/02/18 00:02, Rich Freeman wrote:
On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 6:18 PM, Wol's lists<antli...@youngman.org.uk> wrote:
/var/tmp is defined as the place where programs store stuff like crash
recovery files. Mounting it tmpfs is going to screw up any programs that
reply on that*defined* behaviour to recover after a crash.
Care to cite an example of such a program in the Gentoo repo? I
certainly can't think of any, and I've been running with /var/tmp on
tmpfs for over a decade.
I don't know of any. I was involved with the LSB ages ago, and they were
involved with the FHS, and that was just one of the things I picked up -
the FHS specifically says /var/tmp is for files that are temporary but
not volatile - files that programs are supposed to clean up behind them
but are saved if the program is prevented from deleting them.
Cheers,
Wol
