Timeline for Is it a good idea to mount /var in memory?
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| Jul 2, 2012 at 12:50 | comment | added | user606723 | s/non-volatile/volatile/ | |
| Jul 2, 2012 at 12:46 | comment | added | Alex Chamberlain | let us continue this discussion in chat | |
| Jul 2, 2012 at 12:45 | comment | added | user606723 | It's a place to put files that are non-volatile and can be deleted when necessary. It's certainly not for speed because there is nothing ensuring /tmp is mounted in ram; In fact, many "Production" environments put these partitions on hard drives "just in case" they may need such information for future use. | |
| Jul 2, 2012 at 12:42 | comment | added | Alex Chamberlain | @user606723 Why was /tmp put into RAM? | |
| Jul 2, 2012 at 12:40 | comment | added | user606723 | @AlexChamberlain, /tmp in almost all modern Linux distros | |
| Jul 2, 2012 at 12:35 | comment | added | Alex Chamberlain | @user606723 Ok, what are the frequent use cases then? | |
| Jul 2, 2012 at 12:31 | comment | added | user606723 | -1; Mounting a filesystem in ram is not just for speed nor is the most frequent use-case for speed. | |
| Jul 2, 2012 at 9:16 | vote | accept | Jon Egerton | ||
| Jul 2, 2012 at 9:04 | comment | added | Alex Chamberlain | I guess, but you should probably back it up onto the SD card fairly regularly. | |
| Jul 2, 2012 at 8:56 | comment | added | Jon Egerton | If these are many small writes, is it better to have /var off the SD card where possible? (for SD lifetime) | |
| Jul 2, 2012 at 8:41 | history | answered | Alex Chamberlain | CC BY-SA 3.0 |