Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Location of shmfs; devfs automagics | From | Christoph Rohland <> | Date | 28 Mar 2000 16:26:57 +0200 |
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Thierry Vignaud <tvignaud@mandrakesoft.com> writes:
> "H. Peter Anvin" wrote: > > > > Two alerts regarding filesystem hierarchy: > > > > The location that has been suggested, /var/shm, is a very bad choice. > > /var is a potentially-large filesystem which isn't necessarily > > available during the early boot sequence, may be remote, etc. > > Furthermore, /var is used for on-disk data. > > > > The proper location for entities like this is /dev. The only sensible > > location for this is /dev/shm. > > then if you choose to umount your devfs in order to use the old /dev/ > entries, you get an error message, have to umount /dev/shm first, which > may be used by apps, ....
The suggestion for /var/shm is gone. I would also vote for /dev/shm but didn't like the above clashes during integration. Personally I mount shm fs on /dev/shm since we do not need a default any more.
Greetings Christoph
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