Matthew Garrett <mj...@srcf.ucam.org> writes: > On Mon, May 06, 2024 at 07:42:11AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Historically, deleting anything in /var/tmp that hadn't been accessed >> in over seven days was a perfectly reasonable and typical >> configuration. These days, we have the complication that it's fairly >> common to turn off atime updates for performance reasons, which makes >> it a bit harder to implement that policy when /var/tmp isn't its own >> partition and thus inherits that setting from the rest of the system. > Apologies for being a bit late to this, but is this true? relatime-type > setups will still update atime if the time between the previous update > and the access is larger than some threshold, so you lose some degree of > granularity but the rough policy should still apply. You are correct and I completely forgot about that. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
