On Mon, 3 May 2010 18:17:35 +0200
Guido Berhoerster
* Dave Plater
[2010-05-03 18:02]: Sorry I've nothing against /var/run although in my unqualified opinion, it should rather be ramfs which wouldn't need to have a large initial
No, tmpfs grows dynamically and it can be limited to a maximum size.
size. /tmp being mounted as either ramfs or tmpfs would need a lot of changes in programs that use tmp for large files like dvds for instance moving to /var/tmp.
It is just a matter of having a big enough swap partition.
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