[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#390184: Bug#390184: Bug#390184: Bug#390184: /lib/init/rw uses 1.8 Gbytes for nothing

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]
> > Limiting /lib/init/rw to 10MB or so would be a damn good hint to
> > anything using it that we don't want any abuse there...  I don't see
> > why we wouldn't want to do it.
> 
> The reason I did not put a limit on it, is that I have no idea which
> systems need to store data before /var/run/ is writable, and thus did
> not want to put a unwanted limit on the usage from the start.
> 
> I have no problem changing the default size.  Lets do that just after
> Lenny is released, to see if we break anything. :)

Heh, FWIW, I *already* set it to 10MB in desktops and servers, and never had
any problem (the typical usage is a few kb).

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