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AFA /tmp is concerned, don't some OS's, like Solaris I believe, "mount"
/tmp as a memory filesystem? What would be the benefits/problems with
doing this in Linux (assuming that new memory filesystem that was just
announced get stable/is a good idea)?

fwr

On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Richard Gooch wrote:
> Zack Weinberg writes:
> >
> > Richard Gooch writes:
> > > Zack Weinberg writes:
> > > > In addition, you should symlink /tmp to /var/tmp and audit your rc
> > > > scripts to make sure they don't need /tmp before /var is mounted.
> > > > All modern distros I've tried get this right.
> > >
> > > Why not just have /tmp a separate FS?
> >
> > I don't see any advantage of that over linking /tmp to /var/tmp.
> > The only issue with not having /tmp on the root filesystem is if
> > it's needed before the rest of the filesystems are mounted, and
> > you'd have the same problem with a separate /tmp or a symlink.
>
> OK, fair enough. I had originally read it as "/tmp -> /var/tmp is
> better than mount /tmp". I guess you weren't saying that.
>
> I personally prefer a separate /tmp so that dumb users don't
> accidentally fill up /var (/var/spool, /var/log and so on).
>
> > > > It would be nice to be able to mount / ro and nosuid, but you can't
> > > > do that because there tend to be a few suid executables in /bin, you
> > > > frequently need to modify files in /etc, and login/logout needs to
> > > > modify permissions on /dev nodes. devfs plus lots of symlinks may
> > > > be able to correct this.
> > >
> > > You don't need any symlinks with the standard devfs configuration
> > > (devfs mounted on /dev). What makes you think you do?
> >
> > Not for /dev - for the frequently modified files in /etc, like
> > /etc/shadow (assuming you make people change passwords regularly...)
>
> Ah, OK. Another misunderstanding.
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard....
>
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