On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Adam Tauno Williams
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 3.) DO NOT BASTARDIZE YOU SYSTEM STARTUP SCRIPTS.  You will eventually
> get hit by a bus or get a different job.  If you hack your system's
> standard scripts - like mounting /tmp without an fsck or recreating tmp
> at book - you will break something, or something will break eventually.
> And the guy who has to fix it will have to figure out whatever his
> misguided predecessor did to ruin the system. NEVER BASTARDIZE YOUR
> SYSTEMS STARTUP SCRIPTS.  JUST DON'T.  EVER.  Fix the issue correctly:
> by provisioning an application specific scratch area and/or using tmpfs.

What if you document your processes? Wouldn't that mitigate that... issue?

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