On Thu, 17.03.11 13:24, Andrey Borzenkov (arvidjaar@xxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > 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, > > there are several packages in Mandriva that install subdirectories in > /var/run and simply expect them to be present at any time. My first > try at tmpfs-mount /var/run under systemd was disaster. While I can > fix all those packages to install tmpfiles.d under systemd, I do not > see what can be sensibly done without (except extracting tmpfiles.d > from systemd into separate package). > > So the question is - is all of this still going to work without this > bind mount? For now I don't think too many things will break if /var/run is not a tmpfs, and if /var/run is not bind mounted to /dev/.run. But sooner or later this will probably break... Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. -- 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
