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On 06 Nov 2006 04:53 PM or thereabouts, Roy Marples wrote: |
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> This is a heads up to say that I'm going to be putting baselayout-1.13 into |
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> ~ARCH soon as all the exciting new features I wanted are in - FreeBSD and |
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> vserver support, buffered and wrapped einfo/ewarn/eerror output, rc-depend |
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> for lightning fast dependency sorting, no more critical services, no more net |
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> service specific code. |
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Very nice! |
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> However, one issue is a concern. All baselayouts defined svcdir |
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> in /etc/conf.d/rc which defines where we hold the state information of the |
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> running services. This defaulted to /var/lib/init.d - which is bad as /var |
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> could be on a different partition. |
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> In 1.13, we've removed the variable from /etc/conf.d/rc and it's now forced |
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> to /lib/rcscripts/init.d which is safe as /lib is always on the same |
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> partition as /. |
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>From a filesystem usage point of view though, storing actively changing |
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state data on /lib is ugly. The tmpfs /lib/rcscripts/init.d overlay |
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solution for a ro / works, but as long as tmpfs magic is needed, can't it |
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be written to /var after localmount? |
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--Matthew |
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zeypher@g.o |
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