[geeks] Choice of filesystem for /var

[Joshua Boyd]

On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 05:08:52PM -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:

> Just a clarification... I was thinking of a traditional /var where you
> rarely depend on the data.
> 
> If you depend on the data, then a journaled FS makes sense.
> 
> It's just that /var is often the site of a lot of temp activity, and you
> will pay a performance price there which is often higher than for other
> common mount points.

On my highest performance requiring computers, /var/log, /var/tmp,
/var/run, and /var/lib are symlinks to /tmp, which is a linux tmpfs.
Yes indeed, that does mean that the logs are wiped on reboot.  It was
either that or no logs though.

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