On Mon, 17.06.13 22:12, Tom Gundersen (t...@jklm.no) wrote: > > The only case, where this scheme would fail, is if you backup and > > restore a system to a different partitioning scheme. > > I agree with Lennart that we don't want this scheme, but rather > something predictable. > > How about Colin's suggestion of putting hwdb.bin (and similar files > that cannot always be in /var/cache) in /etc/cache? Or if anyone have > the stomach for a huge fight, try to convince everyone of the > usefulness of /cache?
Well, this is about very few files only. AFAICS only systemd/udev, kmod, ld.so need binary caches around this early during boot. It sounds a bit like overkill to introduce an entirely new root level hierarchy for that. Note that beyond caches there are a number of non-text-files in /etc. For example /etc/localtime, /etc/selinux/targeted/policy/policy.27, /etc/pki/*.db, /etc/aliases.db, /etc/ld.so.cache, /etc/prelink.cache and so on. I am not convinced that text file vs. binary file is the best check to decide whether something belongs in /etc or not. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
