Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 10:04:51 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com>, "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>, "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>, Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/sendmail/mail.local pathnames.h Message-ID: <199912171804.KAA63687@apollo.backplane.com> References: <199912171613.IAA29521@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912171127380.34648-100000@jade.chc-chimes.com> <19991217181206.B278@bitbox.follo.net>
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:> > I also don't see how using /var/tmp vs /tmp is going to help these lusers,
:> > they usually only have a / and /usr, which puts /var/tmp on the same
:> > partition as /tmp which is going to cause the same error under the
:> > same conditions.
:>
:> No. Since our defaults have a (larger) /var, they'll normally have a
:> non-root partition /var/tmp. The root parition certainly shouldn't
:> be used as a place to buffer mail.
:
:>From hier(7):
: /tmp/ temporary files, usually a mfs(8) memory-based filesystem (the
: contents of /tmp are usually NOT preserved across a system re-
: boot)
:
: /var/ multi-purpose log, temporary, transient, and spool files
:
: tmp/ temporary files that are kept between system reboots
: vi.recover the directory where recovery files are
: stored
:
:
:Ie, /tmp and /var/tmp are not the same, and each should be used according to
:its purpose. If we have problems with defaults being wrong WRT size of each
:of these, we should fix the defaults, not write files the wrong place
:(assuming that the file in question is a true temporary file).
:
:Eivind.
This doesn't work well in practice. So many programs write their
temporary files to one or the other without regard to their purpose that
in every single UNIX installation I've *ever* done, I've made /var/tmp
relatively large and made /tmp a softlink to /var/tmp. Doing anything
else just wastes disk space.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
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