(Please keep me in Cc, I'm not subscribed) Proposer: Tollef Fog Heen <[email protected]> Seconder: Michael Biebl <[email protected]>
Currently, /lib/init/rw exists as a place for applications that need write access early (before $local_fs) to put their data. In addition, some abuse /dev/shm for this. A couple of years back, /run was suggested, but /lib/init/rw ended up being chosen. However, various upstreams are not using /lib/init/rw, they're more likely to use hidden directories in /dev, like /dev/.udev and /dev/.initramfs. This is both ugly and a violation of the FHS. Various upstreams seem to now unite under the banner of /run and I think it would make sense for us to follow suit, see [1] for Lennart Poettering's mail to the Fedora devel list and [2] for the FHS bug about it. I'm therefore proposing the goal of: - /run should exist as a tmpfs - /var/run should be a symlink or bind mount of/to /run - /var/lock should be a symlink/bind mount to /run/lock - /lib/init/rw should be a symlink/bind mount to /run - applications are free to use /run as they have previously used /var/run. Applications using /lib/init/rw and /dev/shm are to be changed to use /run. /var/run and /var/lock as tmpfs is already reasonably well supported since this has been in use in Ubuntu for a while and it's been a supported (but optional) configuration in Debian for some time. [1]: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2011-March/150031.html [2]: http://bugs.freestandards.org/show_bug.cgi?id=718 Regards, -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
