Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 09:49:32 -0500 (CDT) From: "Valeri Galtsev" <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu> To: "RW" <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ufs snapshot help Message-ID: <14591.128.135.70.2.1429886972.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <20150424123823.1f02c665@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <CAKE2PDuSGsrf7mHfd2zo-BJAhsOL4KDKTmdROBwtJKeFrvWCBw@mail.gmail.com> <CAKoxK%2B7brXXBE=JxPQHm06a2SEMiGC7k3eF95o7aQ90Hi__3Fg@mail.gmail.com> <CAKE2PDudJ57mWhPKU7XhEz85QG1Gywxt8U=sW1i7T6Nf269h3g@mail.gmail.com> <mhbe4v$gd3$1@ger.gmane.org> <65468.128.135.70.2.1429815636.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> <20150424123823.1f02c665@gumby.homeunix.com>
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On Fri, April 24, 2015 6:38 am, RW wrote: > On Thu, 23 Apr 2015 14:00:36 -0500 (CDT) > Valeri Galtsev wrote: > >> > >> Once (a while ago) I noticed Linuxes have started in addition to /tmp >> using /var/tmp, > > FreeBSD has always had /var/tmp. It's perfectly sensible, file > in /tmp don't need to survive a reboot, those in /var/tmp do. Functionality wise, yes. Security/robustness wise, no. Well, one can have both by creation of yet another partition and mounting it as /var/tmp. Then regular user will not be able to just fill up /var (through /var/tmp) thus stopping logs being incremented, preventing daemons being started (the ones that need to write their PID into /var/run) etc. Valeri > >> and yet even worse /usr/tmp. What a brain dead >> decision! It always is regretful when one sees "Linuxisms" creeping >> in into better systems like FreeBSD ;-( > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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