On 05/22/2010 11:06 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Sat, 22.05.10 18:30, Xose Vazquez Perez (xose.vazquez@xxxxxxxxx) wrote: > >> >> Is it worth using tmpfs for some directories(/var/run, lock...) ? > > Yes. But this requires some changes all across the distro, just have a > look at the output of "rpm -qf /var/run/*". > > That said most apps are fixed by now and don't choke when their subdir > in /var/run goes away on reboot, since both SUSE and Ubuntu are using > tmpfs on /var/run, and have done most of the work. So at this point this > should be mostly packaging work (%ghost in .spec files!), not > programming work to make /var/run compatible with tmpfs. I hope to see it in f14 with upstart, and/or systemd. > (And as a side note: systemd by default puts a tmpfs to both /var/run > and /var/lock). It would be wonderful to see systemd in rawhide, and let people play with it. -thanks- -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel