On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 02:52:26PM +0100, Matthias Koenig wrote:
> 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.
Do you mean configure.in? I mean a command line option
# hwclock --hwtosys --adjfile /var/lib/hwclock/adjtime
it's pretty easy to modify your init script to use this setting.
> 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.
Hehe... I know this issue. Fedora/RHEL has also plan to support
stateless roots (read-only). The next level of this insane game is
move /etc/mtab to /var...
We need a more low-level solution for read-only roots. For example
unionfs, or merge-able COW device-mapper snapshots.
Unfortunately nobody actively works on
http://www.gnome.org/~markmc/code/lvm-snapshot-merging/
Karel
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