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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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God is ineffable. |
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Beer is inevitable. |
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