Tell HN: Recent SUSE update caused my first real dataloss in 20 years

Re:Tell HN: Recent SUSE update caused my first real dataloss... by kstenerud on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @03:42AM (#27673018)

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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Re:Tell HN: Recent SUSE update caused my first real dataloss... by 2ton_jeff on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @05:34AM (#27673687)

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".

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