Doug Ledford wrote:
On 02/01/2010 03:32 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
Doug Ledford wrote:
On 01/18/2010 05:09 PM, Neil Brown wrote:
I understand there is a problem here, but I don't like this approach
to a
solution. I'll give it more though when I get home from LCA2010 and see
what I can come up with.
Feel free to come up with something different. But, if your solution
involves maintaining an additional read/write mount area in deference to
a long dead unix tradition, I'm just going to shake my head and patch
your solution away to something sane.
I don't understand you argument here. Not the one where you say you're
going to ignore Neil and do what you want because you can, I understand
that, but the "additional read/write mount area" part, isn't /var/run
r/w on all systems now? Could you clarify why this is "additional" here?
It's not necessarily read/write in the initrd time frame, and putting
the mdadm files there means it would have to be. We didn't make these
changes because we wanted to, we made them because using mdadm raid
arrays for the root filesystem combined with incremental assembly or
with imsm raid devices was broken otherwise.
Do understand that my disquiet related to this isn't because you put a
non-device in /dev, it's that you
didn't put a process PID in /var/run. And frankly, once you let (force)
one group of threads to be somewhere
else, other services will want their PIDs some other place, and anyone
maintaining an application
which presents information on what's running will need to know where
that information.
In other words, it's not where you put it, it's where you *didn't* put
it, that seems to be an
invitation to put stuff just anywhere. Neil argues that they are not
devices, I argue that
they are PIDs. It's not as though it were a huge effort to move it after
pivot root, it's a little code
or script and in space which will be released.
--
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
"We can't solve today's problems by using the same thinking we
used in creating them." - Einstein
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