[698] in arla-drinkers
Re: location of cache dir
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nat Lanza)
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From: Nat Lanza <magus@cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 16 Mar 1999 21:36:14 -0500
In-Reply-To: Dan Winship's message of "Tue, 16 Mar 1999 16:44:42 GMT"
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Dan Winship <danw@mit.edu> writes:
> Most OSes these days (or at least the cool ones :) seem to believe
> that /usr should be able to be both read-only and shared across
> multiple machines. Maybe the default cache dir location should be in
> /var instead of /usr?
Most machines I deal with either have /var on the relatively small
root partition, with log rotation set up to keep it from overflowing,
or they have a little /var partition with the same log rotation
stuff. All the big stuff goes somewhere in /usr<blah>. And hey, the
Transarc cache goes in /usr/vice. Also, I'd guess that most users of
Arla are running Linux machines. Most Linux machines are probably
Redhat boxes. Since RPM usually puts everything in /usr, making /usr
be read-only might be painful.
So I guess I don't really see why changing the default to /var is a
good idea.
--nat
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