Le lundi 30 octobre 2006 à 15:02 +0700, Aleksey Midenkov a écrit : > Hello all the Debian Community! > > It is possible to detect if kernel supports tmpfs and mount it > on /var/run, /var/lock, /var/tmp and maybe /tmp and may be other places. This > can be made in one of the appropriate debian packages and made configurable > through debconf. The package to fit this, I think, is initscripts. > > How do you think, would it be appreciated? Does it potentionally violates > some > policy for the particular directory from what I mentioned? May be you will > suggest some other directores. I want to know because I want to do this.
/var/run is problematic because its subdirectories are expected to survive across reboots. I haven't tried /var/lock but there is no reason for tmpfs not to work for this one. Using a tmpfs for /var/tmp would definitely violate the FHS as it must survive across reboots. As for /tmp, this is the primary intended use for tmpfs and I use it whenever possible. I don't know if it's a good idea when there isn't much memory, though. -- Josselin Mouette /\./\ "Do you have any more insane proposals for me?"
