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Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Sat, 26 May 2012 18:17:38 -0500 |
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> Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> It |
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>> appears that /run is sort of a temp thing while booting and just sort |
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>> of sticks around after getting booted, since it is there anyway. Why |
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>> not use it? |
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> No, that is incorrect. |
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> /run is a deliberate design decision (and a damn good one that should |
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> always have been there IMHO) and it sticks around because it is |
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> supposed to. It's not an after-effect that just happens to be useful, |
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> it's the entire objective. |
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> Think of it in the same way you think of /dev, /proc and /sys: |
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> There are there, there are guaranteed to be there with certain |
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> behaviours, and you can't change that (neither should you want to). |
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What I was saying tho, since it appears to be needed now, since /var may |
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not be mounted yet, it was created and is used during booting up. Since |
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it is there, why not use it, even AFTER the system is booted. After |
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all, the files are already there since they were put there during boot |
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up. No need moving them and all that when they are already created and |
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available. |
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Plus, as someone said, I think it was you in another reply, what if /var |
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fails to mount at all? At that point, it still works since /run is |
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there already. Since /run is on tmpfs, if it fails to mount for some |
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reason, you got issues already. ;-) |
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I don't mind it being there, I just hope udev, or whatever else may use |
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it later on, doesn't get memory hungry. Actually, maybe some other |
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small directories could be placed there as well. The lock files would |
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be a good one to start with. Just thinking. May want to duck tho. lol |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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-- |
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I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or |
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how you interpreted my words! |
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Miss the compile output? Hint: |
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EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n" |