[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Dropping CONCURRENCY and tmpfs defaults

[Kel Modderman]

Hi Roger,

> CONCURRENCY is now a stable tested feature.  Is it realistic
> to remove this for wheezy?
> 
> We could
> - Just remove the option to set it in rcS, and retain the
>   existing fallbacks for non-insserv-enabled systems, or
> - Remove everything and strictly require insserv.
> I guess this depends upon how many systems are still out there
> using the fallbacks.  Would it be possible to abort install in
> the preinst if we encounter such a system for the latter
> option?  In git, I've gone with the safe former option, but
> could do the latter if that's acceptable.

I'd love to see the latter, but fear that there is still a large number
of systems where the dep-based-boot conversion has not yet taken place for
whatever reason. Petter would probably have a better POV about this.

It's definitely the right time for the safe former option.

> 
> 
> tmpfs
> Recently a number of bug reports have surfaced regarding running
> out of space on /tmp.  I think we do an OK job with the existing
> /run and /run/lock defaults, but we can probably do better with
> /tmp.  Another issue was leaving files hidden on the original
> /tmp.  I'd like to propose:
> - moving mounting of /tmp from kernel to after checkroot but
>   before mountall.
> - merging this with the existing overflowtmp logic, which should
>   probably be using the same defaults
> - cleaning /tmp before mounting the tmpfs (using the existing
>   bootclean logic).  We just move it to before mountall.
> Does this sound OK?

Yep.

Thanks, Kel