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Subject: Re: Sysinstall automatic filesystem size generation.
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Um, that they may be but... I was under the impression (mistaken?) that
/tmp is a directory defined under the POSIX standard and is in fact
supposed to be flushed in those cases, and that /var/tmp is to be used
for programs desiring persistant storage across shutdowns (scheduled and
unscheduled).

Perhaps it only says that a program is not allowed to rely on /tmp being
persistent.  I don't have a copy at hand :-/

-Jon

On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Chuck Swiger wrote:

> Jon Dama wrote:
> > yes, that's quite generous.
> >
> > why isn't /tmp just an mfs mount though?
>
> While I like that suggestion personally, some people get perturbed about files
> in /tmp going away if the power fails or you reboot.
>
> --
> -Chuck
>