On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 11:36 PM, Yaro Kasear <yaro@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'd like a minor clarification here... I've never seen a directory called run > on /. Is netcfg expected to create that? No. /run is maintained by mkinitcfg/initscripts/filesystem. It is a tmpfs mounted directory that is guaranteed to be writable from the initramfs until shutdown. In the long-run it is meant to take the place of /var/run (you can actually symlink /var/run to /run now and everything works). For more details see: <https://lwn.net/Articles/436012/>. > Does the FHS support that? Yes. Distributions are free to add root-level directories; individual applications are not. /run was first proposed by debian and is currently (to the best of my knowledge) endorsed by at least suse, fedora and ubuntu. I believe it has also been proposed for inclusion in the new FHS. Cheers, Tom
