On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 5:55 AM Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> wrote:
> FWIW I've run various systems with partitions replaced with MFS (usually > copying from HD at boot and syncing back to HD at shutdown). This makes > sense for some directories but I came to the conclusion that doing this > for the rest of /var is more trouble than it's worth, in particular > it's easy to get out of sync between /var/db and files installed on > persistent storage. > > My recommendation if you want to reduce active disk writes there would > be MFS /var/run (and /var/cache if you have things that use it), but > FFS for the rest of /var, use syslog memory-buffers for "standard" > logging (and if there are more important things, you can easily keep > writing them to /var/log on a facility/level or per-source basis). > > syspatch should give correct messages in error cases but I don't think > the behaviour otherwise really needs to change. > Thanks I'm going to more or less follow this advice. - Art
