On Mon, 28 May 2012 21:24:59 +0200, Jarry wrote: > > But why would you want to? > > I do not see any advantage in having /run on tmpfs.
Even though you have had several benefits explained to you? Files in /run have to be available and writeable at all times from early boot onwards, using a hard disk filesystem cannot guarantee this. > > will be automatically moved to your swap partition if doing so > > benefits your system. > > I'm not sure it is true. I have read somewhere that tmfps is > never moved to swap. You can justify anything you like with something you have read somewhere. However, if you read the kernel docs on tmpfs you'll see "tmpfs puts everything into the kernel internal caches and grows and shrinks to accommodate the files it contains and is able to swap unneeded pages out to swap space. It has maximum size limits which can be adjusted on the fly via 'mount -o remount ...'" -- Neil Bothwick Barth's Distinction: There are two types of people: those who divide people into two types, and those who don't.
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