On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, t...@mediaforest.net wrote: > > And what are you going to do with the data which is in /lib/init/rw ? Move > > it around causing all sort of nasty races with running daemons that might be > > using it? > > The problem is that there isn't anything except dot files of zero size > inside, furthermore, as mentionned in #403863, > those files are supected by chkrootkit to be parts of a rootkit.
Other packages may use it, and chkrootkit is just useless anyway if you're running it from a system where a rootkit is also running. So no, /lib/init/rw is NOT going away. And it uses just a few kb of memory (if that much) to keep state if you are not using it, anyway. tmpfs is one of the more memory-friendly filesystems in Linux, it wastes almost nothing. Feel free to try to get programs to stop storing dotfiles in /lib/init/rw, however. Unlike removing /lib/init/rw or umounting it later, there is no technical reason to use dotfiles in /lib/init/rw. I'd rather dotfiles were not used there, either. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
