On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > The maintainers of the commonly used early-boot tools agreed to use a > /dev/.run/<package>/ dir instead, which will be provided by initramfs > and systemd. After the basic bootup, the /dev/.run/ tmpfs mountpoint > will be available at /var/run/. The /dev/.run/ directory is at that > point just an "early-boot alias" for /var/run/, and all early-boot > tools will have their data in /var/run/, just like any other service. > In the end, there should be no custom .-dirs left in /dev, besides > this "alias". > Kay has clarified in IM that the /dev/.run directory is bind-mounted to /var/run later in the boot, so it's available at both paths always. If other distros ignore that, then it's just a change of path for udev. Which makes me wonder why this is necessary at all. Modern distros have a tmpfs mounted on /var/run at all phases of the boot, mounting it in the initramfs, binding it to the target filesystem, and ensuring that it remains mounted even if an intermediate /var is placed in the way. So udev could simply use /var/run/udev all the time anyway Scott -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
