Followup to: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10005301224200.707-100000@wr5z.localdomain>
By author: Thomas Molina <tmolina@home.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Also,
>
> 1. Why is /var/shm such a bad place?
/var is meant to be a true filesystem; furthermore, it is highly
dynamic, which means that you will have scripts trying to backup /var,
look for stale files, etc. Basically, a program can expect /var to be
a real filesystem (not something like shmfs) mounted locally (not
shared!) in read/write mode (not readonly).
> 2. Where is the suggested place?
/dev/shm would be the best by far. Things like this (kernel
interaction nodes) belong in /dev. /shm would be a distant second
choice.
> I agree that people will probably put it in the suggested place absent
> any other data. I put it there because I'm not familiar enough with the
> File System Standard to have a preference for any other place.
-hpa
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