On 06/28/2010 07:49 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 6/28/10 9:04 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> On 06/28/2010 05:19 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: >>> Ralf Corsepius (rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx) said: >>> >>>>> Won't work. /var can be a separate filesystem, cgroup filesystem >>>>> may need to be available as boot. >>>>> >>>> Who populates this directory? >>>> Who uses it? >>>> >>> Any service that wants to create a control group. >> And how is this different from any other currently existing service? >> >> Most of them don't work without /var or files spread across different >> file systems, i.e. before any service is usable, at lease all required >> filesystems need to be mounted. >> >> Ralf > > > Init mounts those filesystems, so requiring them to be mounted before > init can run doesn't make sense. Init has to mount at least "/", it has access to /etc/fstab and thus is able to mount/unmount/remount file systems ad lib. -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging
