Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 07:41:42AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> On Friday 07 March 2008, Matthias Koenig wrote: >> > As hwclock updates this file when running, it should be in >> > /var/lib as suggested by FHS. >> >> there really should be a way to control this (configure/command >> line/whatever). /etc has a lot of desirable advantages over anything >> in /var. > > Exactly, it was my first impression from the patch, a command line > option would be nice. The patch is unacceptable for systems where is > /var outside root partition. You are right, it should be a configure option. This seems to be a catch-22 situation. The change was intended for running several machines from the same image and the rootfs mounted ro. But, of course hwclock needs to run before any other local filesystems are checked and mounted, which runs into problems when /var is a separate partition. I need to think about this again... Matthias -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux-ng" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
