On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 21:57 +0800, Patrick Lauer wrote:
> Why this arbitrary limit to only one application?
>
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?part=3&chap=4
>
> Something along those lines makes life a lot easier and avoids these
> schizophrenic hacks around package man
On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 10:02 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
> I think having / and /tmp share the same file system is a bad idea,
> because then writing lots of stuff to /tmp would potentially fill up the
> root file system (that typically also includes /var) and then cause a
> lot of breakage.
If onl
On Fri, 25 May 2012 21:56:55 -0400
Ted Ts'o wrote:
>
> The major difference is that tmpfs pages only get written out to swap
> when the system is under memory pressure. In contrast, pages which
> are backed by a filesystem will start being written to disk after 30
> seconds _or_ if the system i
On Fri, 25 May 2012 15:12:03 -0400
Nikolaus Rath wrote:
> Weldon Goree writes:
> > If only ext*fs supported quotas...
>
> Aren't quotas only for non-root and per file system? I think we're
> already safe from non-root filling up / because of the reserved 5%.
Yes, b
On Mon, 28 May 2012 13:03:47 +0200
Toni Mueller wrote:
> It's not, see below. Also, most of the time, /tmp goes into / (on
> smaller systems), and is thus typically *very* much limited in space.
If the theory is to design for the "trained chicken" install (and it still is,
right?), then / gets t
On Tue, 2012-05-29 at 12:15 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> What's the folder structure in /tmp then? /tmp//$USER?
It's the Wild West over there. You'll often see something
like /tmp/$procname/$pid/blah or /tmp/$procname/$user/blah, or
just /tmp/$some_hash_of_who_knows_what/blah.
FHS is uncharact
On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 16:15 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> I'll double check the facts of course. If I have also see if I can
> understand the situation in each case well enough to make a
> recommendation. It seems at the very least that many of these issues
> are "within" a particular family of pa
On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 17:39 +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> No, the list is in format:
D'oh. Thanks. I'll still see if I can tease out which of those are
binaries trying to do the same thing and which are completely unrelated.
Weldon
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