On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 23:12, Scott James Remnant <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 7:39 AM, Lennart Poettering > <lennart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> 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... >> > For non-distribution Linux installs, having that extra mount is an > extra syscall on boot that could be done without. > > Do you think it'd be a problem if software could have the option to > use /var/run directly without going through the /dev/.run alias? > > (I guess this would be as simple as a configure option for thems that wants it) Seems, after the last round of discussion we got for a simple /run tmpfs now, and all these issues and fiddling with directories on an on-disk /var will go away. 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
