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From: "RaúlNúñez de Arenas Coronado" <raul@viadomus.com>
To: adam@tabris.net, raul@viadomus.com, rml@tech9.net
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is /dev/shm needed?
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 00:37:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E16Fkqc-0001Z0-00@DervishD.viadomus.com> (raw)

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    Hello Adam :))

>> have lots of memory to spare, give it a try.  Mount /tmp or all of /var
>> in tmpfs.
>Unfortunately, some(many?) distros are b0rken in re /var/. There is
>stuff put there that is needed across boots (for example, mandrake
>puts the DNS master files in /var/named.)

    Moreover, didn't the LHS say that /var/tmp is supposed to be
maintained across reboots? I'm not sure about this, but anyway /var
is supposed to hold temporary data, not boot-throwable data, isn't
it?

    Raúl

             reply	other threads:[~2001-12-16 23:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-16 23:37 RaúlNúñez de Arenas Coronado [this message]
2001-12-16 23:47 ` Adam Schrotenboer
2001-12-16 23:56   ` Ryan Cumming
2001-12-17  0:17     ` Adam Schrotenboer
2001-12-17  2:26     ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-12-17 15:50 ` Luigi Genoni
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-12-17  8:41 RaúlNúñez de Arenas Coronado
2001-12-17  8:34 ` Christoph Rohland
2001-12-17  4:14 Jason Rivard
2001-12-16 23:36 RaúlNúñez de Arenas Coronado
2001-12-16 23:15 RaúlNúñez de Arenas Coronado
2001-12-16 23:12 ` Robert Love
2001-12-16 23:31   ` Pierfrancesco Caci
2001-12-17  8:36   ` ncw
2001-12-17  8:19 ` Christoph Rohland
2001-12-16 22:02 RaúlNúñez de Arenas Coronado
2001-12-16 22:30 ` Robert Love
2001-12-16 23:13   ` Adam Schrotenboer
2001-12-16 23:26     ` J Sloan
2001-12-16 23:27   ` Alexander Viro
2001-12-17  9:03     ` Jurgen Botz

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