Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Petter Reinholdtsen dijo [Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 06:42:29AM +0200]: >> Not quite sure what the question is. As far as I know, Debian >> supported tmpfs mounted /var/run when I become co-maintainer of >> sysvinit, and I have tried to keep it this way. The only recent >> changes it that it has become easier to enable it. Very good to >> notice that this now is documented in the policy. >> >> If you wonder what the advantages of tmpfs in /var/run is, I know of >> several, but do not really have time to track down them all. One of >> them I care specially about is the fact that it allow a computer to >> boot with a read-only local file system (think diskless workstations >> and thin clients booting LTSP, machines with flash disks and files >> with problems with their file systems), and I believe this is a clear >> advantage. Having tmpfs there also make it more obvious that the >> content of /var/run/ will be erased at boot. > > It does achieve not having bogus information on. If your system > crashed, some crappy daemons will refuse to start if > /var/run/crappyserver.pid exists, or will try to communicate with > their peers using /var/run/sloppydaemon.socket, possibly failing > cleanly, but possibly leading to head-scratching /etc/init.d/mountall-bootclean.sh will take care of cleaning up /var/tmp. If not, it would be a bug in mountall-bootclean.sh. Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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