Alexander Viro wrote:
> On 16 Dec 2001, Robert Love wrote:
> > have lots of memory to spare, give it a try. Mount /tmp or all of /var
> > in tmpfs.
>
> What? /var contains things like /var/spool/mail. I _really_ doubt
> that mailboxes disappearing after reboot will make anyone happy.
The original impetus for separating /var from /usr was not that stuff
in /var is temporary, but that anything that the system has to write
to in the course of normal operation goes there... that was so that
/usr could be a filesystem that was shared by many machines (i.e.
NFS mount for diskless workstations, etc.) /var is for data that is
"variable" from machine to machine, so that /usr can be "constant".
:j
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