[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Support for kernels without tmpfs

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]n
> What do we do?  Support machines without the initrw filesystem ?
> Drop support for those (i.e. make tmpfs support mandatory) ?

I am happy to just declear that it isn't supported, but suggest we
make it possible to install the packages on such machines, and let
them fail at runtime.  If /lib/init/rw/ isn't going to be available,
the system will be seriously crippled, and more so in the future.  I
am not happy with dropping /lib/init/rw/, because we really need it to
handle coldplug events properly, and it would be useful to store the
fsck logs and perhaps to replace bootlogd too.  And as libnss-ldap
already found use for it, I suspect even more packages will be using
it in the future.

I must admit, that in my opinion kernels without tmpfs isn't supported
today (as the shm* are not working), and those using them just have to
live with the pain alone. :)

Friendly,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen