[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#523822: please generalise /var/{run, lock}

[martin f krafft]

Package: initscripts
Version: 2.86.ds1-61
Severity: wishlist
File: /etc/init.d/mountkernfs.sh

/var/{run,lock} are not really "kernfs"'s, but they are great ideas.
It would be good if the method would be generalised and I could use
the same infrastructure to mount tmpfs in other places too, to
support the creation of a read-only system.

Thus, I suggest to remove RAM{LOCK,RUN} from /etc/default/rcS and
instead introduce a file like /etc/tmpfs or similar with each line
either referencing a line in /etc/fstab, or specifying a mountpoint
and options, e.g.

  /var/run rw,nosuid,mode=755
  /var/lock rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec

then I could easily add /var/log or /etc/network/run to that file
and have tmpfs overlays available early during the boot, e.g.
S03mounttmpfs, which runs after 03mountkernfs.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-1-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages initscripts depends on:
ii  debianutils                  3.0.1       Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  e2fsprogs                    1.41.3-1    ext2/ext3/ext4 file system utiliti
ii  libc6                        2.9-7       GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  lsb-base                     3.2-22      Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  mount                        2.13.1.1-1  Tools for mounting and manipulatin
ii  sysvinit-utils               2.86.ds1-61 System-V-like utilities

Versions of packages initscripts recommends:
ii  psmisc                        22.6-1     Utilities that use the proc filesy

initscripts suggests no packages.

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