Using TMPFS for /tmp and /var/run?

[Chris Rees]

On 29 Mar 2012 16:49, "O. Hartmann" <ohartman at mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de>
wrote:
>
> I was wondering if there are some objections using TMPFS for /tmp and
> /var/run.
> I figured out some problems with some rc.d scripts when using TMPFS for
> /var/run, samba and OpenLDAP do store some informations like PID in a
> subfolder of their own in /var/run, but the rc.d scripts are not
> checking properly the existence of the appropritae folder (unlike "dbus"
> and "hald", they check properly!).
>
> I already submitted two PRs, but for SAMBA, my "hack" is trivial and
> obviously to clumsy, so it should be check properly.
>
> My question is whether there are objections using TMPFS for bot /tmp/
> and /var/run/ at this stage on FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT/amd64?

Any rc script that complains about an empty /var/run is buggy- it should be
assumed that it will be emptied on boot.

In short, tmpfs for those two dirs should be fine.

Chris