From: Jurgen Botz <jurgen@botz.org>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Cc: "Robert Love" <rml@tech9.net>,
"RaúlNúñez de Arenas Coronado" <raul@viadomus.com>,
Linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Is /dev/shm needed?
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 01:03:50 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <13376.1008579830@nova.botz.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> of "Sun, 16 Dec 2001 18:27:33 EST." <Pine.GSO.4.21.0112161825210.937-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>
Alexander Viro wrote:
> On 16 Dec 2001, Robert Love wrote:
> > have lots of memory to spare, give it a try. Mount /tmp or all of /var
> > in tmpfs.
>
> What? /var contains things like /var/spool/mail. I _really_ doubt
> that mailboxes disappearing after reboot will make anyone happy.
The original impetus for separating /var from /usr was not that stuff
in /var is temporary, but that anything that the system has to write
to in the course of normal operation goes there... that was so that
/usr could be a filesystem that was shared by many machines (i.e.
NFS mount for diskless workstations, etc.) /var is for data that is
"variable" from machine to machine, so that /usr can be "constant".
:j
--
Jürgen Botz | While differing widely in the various
jurgen@botz.org | little bits we know, in our infinite
| ignorance we are all equal. -Karl Popper
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-17 9:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-16 22:02 Is /dev/shm needed? 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 [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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 23:36 RaúlNúñez de Arenas Coronado
2001-12-16 23:37 RaúlNúñez de Arenas Coronado
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
2001-12-17 4:14 Jason Rivard
2001-12-17 8:41 RaúlNúñez de Arenas Coronado
2001-12-17 8:34 ` Christoph Rohland
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