Russ Allbery wrote: > Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> writes: >> Russ Allbery wrote: > >>> It is, however, a standard and supported option and it's the default in >> ^^^^^^^^ >> Hm, what standard exactly do you refer too. > > standard, adjective [1622] > > 2) (a) regularly and widely used, available, or supplied <standard > automobile equipment> (b) well-established and very familiar <the > standard opera> widely used and well established in Debian is definitely not the case. > > is what I meant. /var/run on tmpfs has been common on UNIX platforms for > many years. It was standard on Solaris at least as far back as Solaris 8, > for example. Afaik, Ubuntu is the only Linux distro which supports and uses tmpfs by default. I believe you, when you say that it is common on older UNIX platforms or Solaris, as I don't have experience with them. Again, if there would be a list of cons, I'd be much happier in supporting this new policy. Unfortunately I only see disadvantages. Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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