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by kstenerud 1816 days ago
I don't understand... Why would you put 24TB of irreplaceable data and backups in a temporary place like /dev/shm instead of regular mounts to /mnt/my-precious-stuff and /mnt/my-backups?
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I routinely don't want persistent mount points. Imagine my: cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdXY name Followed by: mkdir -pv /dev/shm/name mount -o noatime /dev/mapper/name /dev/shm/name

What this "RemoveIPC" did for me was rm -rf all of that, even if I mounted them as root.

That a single "RemoveIPC" difference between openSUSE 15.2 and 15.3, undocumented, caused me to lose all that data is one thing.

Another thing entirely to question WHY "RemoveIPC" is even a thing to begin with. I have never logged into any machine and said "wow look at all of this stale data taking up RAM in /dev/shm".