Steve Litt wrote: > Joel Roth <jo...@pobox.com> wrote: > > > Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > There's a small number of directories that are supposed to be on > > > the root filesystem, or otherwise available during boot. I > > > believe /etc and /bin are two of these. > > > > > > /usr is not. I suspect /var isn't either. > > > > > > init is supposed to be able to read /etc/fstab to find the others. > > > That's why /etc has to be on the root filesystem. > > > > > > So it is available for init-time configuration files. > > > > /etc is the right place for config files, and init scripts > > have historically lived there. I hope we can agree on at > > least this part! > > No doubt about it. /etc is the tree where init scripts, run scripts, > EpochConfig files belong. > > I think the nonobvious thing comes from the daemontools-inspired inits, > which at a minimum have a /service directory somewhere that contains > symlinks to the actual service directories. No reason that can't be > somewhere under /etc. Daemontools, and maybe some other ones, also have > a /command directory, directly off the root, that houses executables > specific to themselves. It's possible this odd placement is to > guarantee they're available the minute the root partition is mounted.
Interesting, I thought /sbin was historically for statically linked executables needed at boot time, or for system recovery. > Bizarrely, Runit on Void Linux has a directory at /run/runit that has > all sorts of oddball symlinks. I believe this is so, if /etc/ is > mounted read-only, parts of Runit that need to change file conttents > can still operate. I think this is usually placed at /var/run/runit, > but on Void it's just /run/runit. > > I did a little runit experimentation during my Manjaro Experiments, and > have found that Void's runit implementation is much more complex and > full of chained symlinks than was my Manjaro alt-initted runit. Well, all of these sources can be patched to suit the policies of Devuan, if it can be agreed what these policies are :-) > SteveT > > Steve Litt > April 2016 featured book: Rapid Learning for the 21st Century > http://www.troubleshooters.com/rl21 -- Joel Roth _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
