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From: Luigi Genoni <kernel@Expansa.sns.it>
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	 Coronado <raul@viadomus.com>
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On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Ra?lN??ez de Arenas  Coronado wrote:

>     Hello Adam :))
>
> >> have lots of memory to spare, give it a try.  Mount /tmp or all of /var
> >> in tmpfs.
> >Unfortunately, some(many?) distros are b0rken in re /var/. There is
> >stuff put there that is needed across boots (for example, mandrake
> >puts the DNS master files in /var/named.)
>
>     Moreover, didn't the LHS say that /var/tmp is supposed to be
> maintained across reboots? I'm not sure about this, but anyway /var
> is supposed to hold temporary data, not boot-throwable data, isn't
> it?
yes, just think to sysstem logs...
>
>     Ra?l
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