[PlanetCCRMA] /var/lib/jack/tmp

Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU
Tue Dec 9 10:46:01 2003


> How did you get your version of Jack to default to the directory
> /var/lib/jack/tmp? I guess this is the compile time option 
> 
>  --with-default-tmpdir=/mnt/ramfs
> 
> that's mentioned in the readme, except I'm guessing you set it as:
> 
>  --with-default-tmpdir=/var/lib/jack/tmp  

Yes, that's correct. 

> Is there and reason you mounted it under /var/lib/jack? That would not
> have been my guess as a standard place to put it, nit that I Can see why
> it really matters I guess.
> 
> Any reason I shouldn't mount it under /tmp/jack/tmp ??

No, that should be fine. It depends, I guess, on whether the distro
cleans up /tmp on boot. If it does then you would have to recreate the
mount point before you start jack. That is one of the reasons I used
/var/lib/ as the place to put it. 

-- Fernando