This one time, at band camp, Petter Reinholdtsen said: > > [Steve Langasek] > > However, that's not the same thing as saying it's ok for sysvinit to > > *make* /var/run a tmpfs on the admin's behalf. I think it's pretty > > clear that this violates the letter of the FHS, and such a change > > needs to be considered carefully. > > I fail to see how it violates the letter of the FHS. It is as far as > I can see unspecified what kind of file systems will be used, and also > if directories will persist across boots. While I don't absolutely agree with /var/run being tmpfs, I can see the arguments and I'm not really interested in repeating them here. But really, if you change a filesystem out from under me, and a locally installed application breaks as a result, that is a bug in the package that decided to whimsically change a filesystem on my system. So please, after due consideration make new installs default to tmpfs if you like, but don't change existing setups lightly. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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