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On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 03:26:11PM -0700, Drake Wyrm wrote: |
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> Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@g.o> wrote: |
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> > 2011/5/18 Olivier Cr??te <tester@g.o>: |
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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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> > > |
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> > > See http://lwn.net/Articles/436012/ |
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> > > |
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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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> Even if you don't have to wipe them with a service, you're going to need |
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> to mount them with a service. You'll need to mount /run as tmpfs, create |
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> the /run/lock directory, and then mount /run/lock as tmpfs. Do you |
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> really want to add that to localmount? |
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Actually the code to do this is already in openrc git, and it is much |
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earlier than localmount. Also, you don't need a separate tmpfs for |
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/run/lock since /run is already tmpfs. |
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William |
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