Kay Sievers wrote: > On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 13:28, Ludwig Nussel <ludwig.nus...@suse.de> wrote: > > Bill Nottingham wrote: > >> Andrey Borzenkov (arvidj...@gmail.com) said: > >> > On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 7:07 AM, Kay Sievers <kay.siev...@vrfy.org> > >> > wrote: > >> > > Instead of the /dev/.run trick we have currently implemented, we > >> > > decided > >> > > to move the early-boot runtime dir to /run. > >> > > > >> > > >> > What is the benefit? /var/run is well known and established; what is > >> > the reason to move it in another place? > >> > >> /var/run depends on /var, which is allowed to be a separate filesystem, and > >> therefore not available during all portions of the boot process or > >> shutdown. > > > > mount --bind /var/run /mnt > > mount /var > > mount -M /mnt /var/run > > We would need to make sure that /var/run exists on the rootfs then. We > could probably do that on shutdown, but it's not really fun to rely on > such things.
If it's not there and / is ro you can put /var on tmpfs temporarily too (or even reuse the one for /var/run via bind mount or symlink). cu Ludwig -- (o_ Ludwig Nussel //\ V_/_ http://www.suse.de/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
