On 01:18 Wed 18 May , Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: > ... > Maybe you should use /var/tmp for that? Or ~/tmp/ ? > Yes, I can do that. But the real question here, from my perspective, is why we need /run, /var/run or /tmp on tmpfs. "Other distros do it" is not an answer. Yes, I needed those dirs on tmpfs twice in my life, once when I was building a cluster with diskless nodes (with / on readonly NFS) and once more when I was working with an "LTSP" alike system, but these were exceptions, at that time. As I don't have the knowledge for this and I currently don't have the time to google/search it myself, can someone explain why other linux distibutions / Unix systems (wikipedia says that Solaris had /tmp on tmpfs from 1994) started putting directories on tmpfs and technically speaking what an average user would benefit from having /run, /tmp etc. directories on tmpfs?
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Panagiotis Christopoulos ( pchrist )
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