[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Re: Question: mount /var/run as tmpfs
Josselin Mouette
joss at debian.org
Mon Oct 30 09:33:17 CET 2006
Le lundi 30 octobre 2006 à 15:02 +0700, Aleksey Midenkov a écrit :
> Hello all the Debian Community!
>
> It is possible to detect if kernel supports tmpfs and mount it
> on /var/run, /var/lock, /var/tmp and maybe /tmp and may be other places. This
> can be made in one of the appropriate debian packages and made configurable
> through debconf. The package to fit this, I think, is initscripts.
>
> How do you think, would it be appreciated? Does it potentionally violates some
> policy for the particular directory from what I mentioned? May be you will
> suggest some other directores. I want to know because I want to do this.
/var/run is problematic because its subdirectories are expected to
survive across reboots. I haven't tried /var/lock but there is no reason
for tmpfs not to work for this one.
Using a tmpfs for /var/tmp would definitely violate the FHS as it must
survive across reboots.
As for /tmp, this is the primary intended use for tmpfs and I use it
whenever possible. I don't know if it's a good idea when there isn't
much memory, though.
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