On Wed, 30.03.11 16:24, Chris Adams (cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > Once upon a time, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> said: > > How about /var/run ?? > > > > What would be wrong with it? > > I believe the need is for something guaranteed to be on the root > filesystem, and having a separate /var is still valid. > > I'm not sure why this doesn't go under /etc, but if I were king, the > proliferation of kernel filesystems (proc, sys, cgroup, selinux, etc.) > would be under /kernel, so maybe that's just me. /etc is static configuration data. /run is volatile runtime data. /etc is read-only during boot. /run is writable all the way. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
