On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Eray Aslan wrote: > On 08/12/2010 09:48 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: >> It says "Files under this directory", not "Files and directories under >> this directory." > > Fair enough. > > So our policy basically is "tmpfs is not supported for /var/run" (and also > for /var/lock I suppose).
it may have been in the past, but it's best to move forward and not sit in the past > It will be somewhat more work but instead of the above, we can say "tmpfs > might be used for /var/run and /var/lock and the init scripts should handle > this correctly". It feels (for want of a better word) better. i certainly use a tmpfs on /var/run to minimize disk writes. packages that break i file bugs for and/or fix myself. it isnt that hard. plus, it's just good behavior. if /var/run gets removed for whatever reason, people have to re-emerge a bunch of packages to simply create a subdir ? that's silly. -mike
