Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 14:13:27 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> To: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is needed in /stand Message-ID: <v0422080db50e3a88ecf0@[195.238.1.121]> In-Reply-To: <20000403140719.A96285@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <20000401004437.A6904@evil.2y.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004011039040.41431-100000@localhost> <20000401135701.A11341@evil.2y.net> <v0422080ab50c1240f6d9@[194.78.233.215]> <38E686A2.BC52FBA3@math.missouri.edu> <v04220814b50d4c7bd7cf@[194.78.233.215]> <20000403123751.B94441@mithrandr.moria.org> <v04220802b50e28409e3c@[194.78.233.215]> <20000403140719.A96285@mithrandr.moria.org>
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At 2:07 PM +0200 2000/4/3, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > That doesn't follow. Some people don't like separate /tmp partitions, > and quite a number dislike using MFS for "temporary files". Well, /tmp is supposed to get cleaned out on boot, and nothing that is supposed to survive reboots should ever be stored there. That's what /usr/tmp or /var/tmp is for. If you don't want to use mfs, that's fine -- no one is forcing you to. If you don't want to use a separate filesystem (so that you could mount it async or with softupdates), that's fine too. However, if you're going to do something that I consider to be rather dumb and symlink /tmp to /usr/tmp, then you need to be prepared for the consequences, and you need to be prepared for people who will recommend all sorts of alternatives that will work better, at least under some/many/most circumstances. > Yes, this is a problem. Problems do occasionally have solutions > though (hacked rc scripts being one not unknown suggestion). It's > not 'stupid' to do it this way. There are probably as many arguments > against many partitions as there are against few or one partitions, > and I certainly don't want to go through those again *grin*. Granted, it's a religious war, but if someone is going to start it by saying "Doctor, doctor, it hurts when I do this!", they shouldn't be surprised if they get a round of "So don't do that!" responses. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, <blk@skynet.be> || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels http://www.skynet.be || Belgium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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