Re: node-like file conflicts

2012-08-06 Thread Weldon Goree
On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 16:15 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: I'll double check the facts of course. If I have also see if I can understand the situation in each case well enough to make a recommendation. It seems at the very least that many of these issues are within a particular family of

Re: node-like file conflicts

2012-08-06 Thread Weldon Goree
On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 17:39 +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: No, the list is in format: D'oh. Thanks. I'll still see if I can tease out which of those are binaries trying to do the same thing and which are completely unrelated. Weldon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useless

2012-05-28 Thread Weldon Goree
On Mon, 28 May 2012 13:03:47 +0200 Toni Mueller t...@debian.org wrote: It's not, see below. Also, most of the time, /tmp goes into / (on smaller systems), and is thus typically *very* much limited in space. If the theory is to design for the trained chicken install (and it still is, right?),

Re: Moving /tmp to tmpfs is fine

2012-05-28 Thread Weldon Goree
On Tue, 2012-05-29 at 12:15 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: What's the folder structure in /tmp then? /tmp/something/$USER? It's the Wild West over there. You'll often see something like /tmp/$procname/$pid/blah or /tmp/$procname/$user/blah, or just /tmp/$some_hash_of_who_knows_what/blah. FHS is

Re: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useful

2012-05-26 Thread Weldon Goree
On Fri, 25 May 2012 21:56:55 -0400 Ted Ts'o ty...@mit.edu wrote: The major difference is that tmpfs pages only get written out to swap when the system is under memory pressure. In contrast, pages which are backed by a filesystem will start being written to disk after 30 seconds _or_ if the

Re: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useless

2012-05-26 Thread Weldon Goree
On Fri, 25 May 2012 15:12:03 -0400 Nikolaus Rath nikol...@rath.org wrote: Weldon Goree wel...@b.rontosaur.us writes: If only ext*fs supported quotas... Aren't quotas only for non-root and per file system? I think we're already safe from non-root filling up / because of the reserved 5

Re: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useless

2012-05-25 Thread Weldon Goree
On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 10:02 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: I think having / and /tmp share the same file system is a bad idea, because then writing lots of stuff to /tmp would potentially fill up the root file system (that typically also includes /var) and then cause a lot of breakage. If only

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-05-09 Thread Weldon Goree
On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 21:57 +0800, Patrick Lauer wrote: Why this arbitrary limit to only one application? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?part=3chap=4 Something along those lines makes life a lot easier and avoids these schizophrenic hacks around package managers