correct way to mount stuff on tmpfs
 

Hi,

while searching the right way to use tmpfs for a few locations, I found this
howto:
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=16450

What do you think about this approach? If you think, this is the right way,
then I'd make a Debian package out of it with nice debconf question, which
things to mount and so on.
However, there are the options RAMRUN and RAMLOCK in /etc/default/rcS, but
they're not really helpful, because there are many more places that make sense
in tmpfs. (pbuilder, apt cache)

Best regards,

Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro


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correct way to mount stuff on tmpfs
 

Hi there!

On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:12:15 +0100, Thomas Koch wrote:
> However, there are the options RAMRUN and RAMLOCK in /etc/default/rcS, but
> they're not really helpful, because there are many more places that make sense
> in tmpfs. (pbuilder, apt cache)

Like /tmp <http://bugs.debian.org/402828> ?

IMHO /etc/default/rcS should manage the most common places, then any
other scripts should also consider the values in that file.

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca

correct way to mount stuff on tmpfs
 

On Mon, 25 Jan 2010, Thomas Koch wrote:

Hi,

while searching the right way to use tmpfs for a few locations, I found this
howto:
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=16450

What do you think about this approach?


What's wrong with just putting it in /etc/fstab other than that synss
doesn't like it? It seems like that would be least confusing, as it is
where people expect mountpoints to be specified...


Ivan


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correct way to mount stuff on tmpfs
 

Le lundi 25 janvier 2010 Ã* 19:12 +0100, Thomas Koch a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> while searching the right way to use tmpfs for a few locations, I found this
> howto:
> http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=16450

The correct way would be to set them in the installer.

http://bugs.debian.org/245465

Unfortunately, I can’t say there has been much progress in integrating
this change.

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On Mon, 25 Jan 2010, Ivan Jager wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Jan 2010, Thomas Koch wrote:
> >while searching the right way to use tmpfs for a few locations, I found this
> >howto:
> >http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=16450
> >
> >What do you think about this approach?
>
> What's wrong with just putting it in /etc/fstab other than that
> synss doesn't like it? It seems like that would be least confusing,
> as it is where people expect mountpoints to be specified...

I do that in several production servers, and it works just fine. It is also
somewhere the other admins will look at first, so it can be argued to be the
best place to put this stuff when possible.

What is "synss" ?

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