On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 01:34, Scott James Remnant <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Which makes me wonder why this is necessary at all. ÂModern 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 Not really, it wouldn't work well on older systems without /var/run on tmpfs, or separate /var. The only sane alternative anyway is to introduce /run, not to fiddle around an make assumptions what we have around on on-disk filesystems on bootup. Kay -- 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
