[LEDE-DEV] persistent /var (or /data)?

[Bastian Bittorf]

* Daniel Golle <daniel at makrotopia.org> [23.09.2016 19:19]:

[...]

> On Android and other embedded systems, this whole issue is solved by
> having a designated volume mounted on /data, usually backed by a
> partition on an sdcard or the like.
> 
> Similarly, on systems with block or large (SLC!) NAND storage we
> could introduce an additional partition/volume mounted on /data and
> just not have that directory on systems without any storage options.

[...]

in our systems we introduced 2 new global varnames:

$TMPDIR (like 'temp')
$PERMDIR (like 'permanent')

this makes it clearer in the code and we are "future-safe".

bye, bastian