Re: ifupdown writes to /etc... a bug?

[Jamie Wilkinson <jaq@debian.org>]

This one time, at band camp, Thomas Hood wrote:
>Are there any objections to symlinking /var/run to /run
>(unless /var/run is already a rw, persistent, and non-network-
>mounted directory)?
>
>Advantages:
>  * One path /var/run to all runtime state files -- no need to
>      attend to how early in the boot sequence the file is used
>  * No need to move files currently in /var/run to /run
>  * No need to amend FHS

You don't need to.

Programs that stick stuff into a /run that lives on the root partition or is
available before /var/run is will just continue to use /run throughout their
lifetime.

Programs that use /var/run will continue to use /var/run throughout their
lifetime.

Symlinking /var/run to /run is too much effort for no gain, IMHO.

If you really need to have a single location for runtime state files, use
plasticfs!  Coming soon to a Debian mirror near you!

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