On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 23:20 +0300, Panagiotis Christopoulos wrote: > Yes, I can do that. But the real question here, from my perspective, is > why we need /run, /var/run or /tmp on tmpfs. "Other distros do it" is > not an answer.
The main reason is that you want /run to be writable super early in the boot process, before even / has been fscked and re-mounted. That means you can do stuff like starting udevd in parallel with fsck of / which means faster boot. This is one of the things required to get 1 second boot. See http://lwn.net/Articles/436012/ -- Olivier Crête tes...@gentoo.org Gentoo Developer
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