On Wed, 2025-09-17 at 17:10 +0000, Colin Booth wrote: > On Wed, Sep 17, 2025 at 06:23:55PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > There may be a bit of a misconception or miscommunication here. > > On Linux systems, /run is practically certaion to be mounted on > > a tmpfs of some kind: its explicit purpose is to be volatile, > > for this boot only. It is similar to /var/run, but one of its main > > advantages is that it will always be cleaned upon boot. > > See e.g. https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/ch03s15.html > On most modern systems /var/run is a symlink to /run (or ../run, which > is the same in practice) so they aren't similar but in fact identical. > Other than that everything you said is 100% spot on, using anything > run-related will result in data loss on reboot. I'm more interested in knowing what void linux is doing not mounting /run as a tmpfs
Also I think some BSDs still mount /var/run as a normal directory (they don't have the /run symlink too).
