[Mageia-dev] [Mageia-discuss] many systemd temporary directories

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Florian Hubold at 24/04/12 22:21 did gyre and gimble:
> Am 24.04.2012 22:51, schrieb Colin Guthrie:
>> 'Twas brillig, and Florian Hubold at 24/04/12 21:27 did gyre and gimble:
>>> Am 24.04.2012 20:51, schrieb Juergen Harms:
>>>> I just saw that systemd creates (and does not purge) lots of directories like
>>>> /tmp/systemd-namespace-<uniqueid>/ - I now have nearly 50 of them (one
>>>> partial explanation might be that I did quite some re-booting these last days).
>>>>
>>>> Nothing serious, they are small - but nevertheless ... Is this normal,
>>>> shouldnt there be some automatic purging mechanism?
>>>>
>>>> Juergen
>>>>
>>> Maybe we should default to /tmp being on tmpfs so that
>>> this gets purged on every reboot? This would also be more
>>> in accordance with FHS imho.
>> This is one of my goals for mga3 (I have it in my notes for the
>> technical specs discussion that will come), but certainly not for mga2
>> as this is quite a big change and some apps may have to be patched to
>> use /var/tmp instead etc. if they store large things in there.
>>
>> Col
>>
>>
> Well, this is what FHS says (in an ideal world it would reflect reality)
> 
>     Programs must not assume that any files or directories in /tmp are
>     preserved between invocations of the program.
> 
>     IEEE standard P1003.2 (POSIX, part 2) makes requirements that are similar
>     to the above section.
> 
>     Although data stored in /tmp may be deleted in a site-specific manner, it
>     is recommended that files and directories located in /tmp be deleted
>     whenever the system is booted.
> 
> Just mentioned it as one possible solution to the problem at hands.

Absolutely (for once the FHS is sensible here :D).

But it's more of a practical consideration at the moment. Some apps do
indeed store large data here... so we'd need to do this kind of thing
early on in the cycle, not last minute.

I think Fedora will ultimately do this, as will SuSE, so I don't see any
problem with it in principle.

Col


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