Bug#191036: create /run for programs that run before /var is mounted
Hi Bas!
On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, Bas Zoetekouw wrote:
> Hi Bill!
>
> You wrote:
>
> > Thanks a lot! I will try to improve it again:
> >
> > As an extension to the FHS, the Debian filesystem has a /run directory
> > intended to hold program state file for programs that run early during
> > the boot process when /var is not yet mounted.
> >
> > /run must be in the root filesystem, or it must be made available at the
> > time the root filesystem would be mounted in read-write mode. It must be
> > writeable. It is not required that its content survives system reboot.
>
> Should't the distinction between /run and /var/run be made more
> explicit? Something like:
>
> State files must go into /var/run unless they are needed/created before
> /var is mounted rw, in which case they must go into /run.
Well, /run is completely ephemeral as specified so far, while /var/run
*might* retain directories across reboots. Do we want a fully ephemeral
/var/run (this *will* break most packages that have subdirs in there, I have
already fixed mine to recreate the dirs in the initscripts due to user
requests, but...)?
If we do want an ephermeral /var/run, just symlink it to /run and be done
with it ;-)
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