[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#691673: initscripts: please, allow having /run *not* being a RAM disk.

[Rogério Brito]

Package: initscripts
Version: 2.88dsf-32
Severity: wishlist

Hi.

For those people that want to shoot themselves on their own foot, please
allow (even if undocumented) running with /run *not* being a ramdisk.

This is especially important for memory-starved machines like embedded
computers/NASes, where every single byte of RAM is important.


Thanks in advance for the great job,

Rogério Brito.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.5-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf-8, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.utf-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages initscripts depends on:
ii  coreutils       8.13-3.3
ii  debianutils     4.3.4
ii  libc6           2.13-36
ii  lsb-base        4.1+Debian7
ii  mount           2.20.1-5.2
ii  sysv-rc         2.88dsf-32
ii  sysvinit-utils  2.88dsf-32

Versions of packages initscripts recommends:
ii  e2fsprogs  1.42.5-1
ii  psmisc     22.20-1

initscripts suggests no packages.

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