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

Tue Apr 24 23:21:19 CEST 2012

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.
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