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2011/5/18 Olivier Crête <tester@g.o>: |
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> On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 23:20 +0300, Panagiotis Christopoulos wrote: |
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>> Yes, I can do that. But the real question here, from my perspective, is |
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>> why we need /run, /var/run or /tmp on tmpfs. "Other distros do it" is |
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>> not an answer. |
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> The main reason is that you want /run to be writable super early in the |
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> boot process, before even / has been fscked and re-mounted. That means |
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> you can do stuff like starting udevd in parallel with fsck of / which |
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> means faster boot. This is one of the things required to get 1 second |
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> boot. |
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> See http://lwn.net/Articles/436012/ |
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Related is that you don't need to manually wipe /tmp /var/run |
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/var/lock via a service. They're automatically wiped when you reboot. |
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This saves time during bootup. |
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~Nirbheek Chauhan |
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