Re: /run vs /var/run

[Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@lina.inka.de>]

In article <[🔎] 20051218033237.GA31995@tennyson.dodds.net> you wrote:
> The principle is the same: /lib is used only for the minimal system required
> for booting, and everything else should go in /usr/lib.  /run should be used
> only for junk that needs to be stored early in the boot sequence, and
> everything else should go in /var/run.

However there a big differences: /var/run is much smaller than /run, and if
it is placed in a tmpfs (which is really the best thing anyway) it doesnt
matter under which mountpoint it is located.

And then it is much cleaner to have only one.

Gruss
Bernd