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From: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: use of the /run directory
Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 19:08:24
Message-Id: 20110517190703.GA3723@linux1
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: use of the /run directory by Nirbheek Chauhan
1 On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:58:56PM +0530, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
2 > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:41 PM, Peter Volkov <pva@g.o> wrote:
3 > > В Втр, 17/05/2011 в 11:57 -0500, William Hubbs пишет:
4 > >> I think we should support the /run directory [1] [2].
5 > >
6 > >> I, as well as several others, believe we should proactively create this
7 > >> directory ... What does everyone else think?
8 > >
9 > > I've read https://lwn.net/Articles/436012/ and that convinced me. Until
10 > > there is better solution, please, do it. Also I think it's good idea if
11 > > it'll be on tmpfs, as it should, from the very beginning.
12 > >
13 >
14 > I'd add that if we want /run to be on tmpfs, /var/run and /tmp should
15 > both be on tmpfs by default. I've been doing this manually for a year,
16 > and so have other distributions.
17
18 Once /run is in place,
19
20 /var/run will be a symbolic link to /run and /var/lock will be a
21 symbolic link to /run/lock.
22
23 So that will cover /var/run.
24
25 William

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