[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Early RW filesystem: PROPOSAL AND VOTE REQUEST

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]
> Please reply with your thoughts, and whether you agree with this or
> not.  Let's get this over quickly, if at all possible...

I am starting to conclude similarly, that we need to provide some
other writable location early in the boot, and is considering if it is
possible to make tmpfs on /var/run/ and /var/lock/ a new option in
/etc/default/rcS.  But I am not yet sure if the last part is feasable.
I agree that we for the short term should revert the /var/run/ and
/var/lock/ changes, to avoid blocking the fix for an early writable
tmpfs because of the /var/run/ controversy.

One thing we need to consider is what to ask the previous users of
/dev/shm/ to use if /var/run/ and /var/lock/ isn't available for their
use.  Shall we ask them to use /lib/init/rw/?  Shall we umount
/lib/init/rw when the other file systems become available?

Friendly,
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Petter Reinholdtsen