On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 11:46:34AM +0300, Valeriy E. Ushakov wrote: > > > 2) /var/spool/lock/lvm > > > > is the right place. > > Ugh. What does it have to do with spooling?
What do any locks have to do with spooling? Historically, /var/spool is for "stuff". Since then lots of things traditionally in /var/spool have been moved into /var, like /var/cron, /var/at, /var/rwho, and so forth, mostly for no clear reason but I guess because they don't have anything to do with "spooling", whatever that means. Anyway, the reason this whole thread started out with /var/lock is that the Linux world apparently also did this with /var/spool/lock. -- David A. Holland dholl...@netbsd.org