On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 01:49:37AM +0100, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > tmpfs stores run ressources in vm more efficiently (since they are otherwise > in th buffercache and the filesystem).
Quite the contrary. tmpfs needs vm space even if nobody needs the data (thus, it could be evicted from the page cache if it were on a disk-backed fs). I just looked at my /var/run directory and I found only 5 files (4 of them are sockets) that are used often ("often" = "at least once in every 5 minutes" here). The rest should definitely not occupy my VM space in any form. > And you cant really move the run ressources. What you mean by that? /run is needed to store things before the real /var is mounted for a very few things that _must_ run before /var is mounted. If something is capable to be started _after_ /var is mounted, I think it has no right to use /run. For the few things that really needs /run it could be easy to implement moving data out of /run after /var is mounted. Gabor -- --------------------------------------------------------- MTA SZTAKI Computer and Automation Research Institute Hungarian Academy of Sciences --------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]