[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Re: Moving /var/run to a tmpfs?

[Bas Zoetekouw]

Hi Andreas!

You wrote:

> The whole thing is grey territory in FHS, but still I tend to think
> that sysvinit should somehow preserve the (empty) directory structure
> of /var/run through reboots. Either by using some find+tar magic after
> mounting /usr or by keeping /var/run a real directory and keep the
> pre-mount stuff in /var/run/pre-mount. Other thoughts?

Ubuntu has had a tmpfs on /var/run for quite a while, afaik.  So, I
assume that fixes for the kind of problems you mentioned have been
merged back into the debian packages already.

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Kind regards,
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