/run (was: Alpha build progress and suggestions for helping)
On Mon, 5 Sep 2011, Bob Tracy wrote:
> I noticed another change in "the way things are done" which is a clear
> violation of the principle of least astonishment: it appears "/var/run"
> is now symlinked to "/run" following a recent upgrade I applied. This
> broke "radvd" which wants to put its PID file in a subdirectory of
> "/var/run" (/var/run/radvd). Yeah, it's probably a bad idea for "radvd"
> to be doing that, but moving "/var/run" without looking for side-effects
> was a bad idea too.
>
> As a rule, I like as little filesystem I/O on the root fs as possible.
> If "/run" on a fresh installation is a separate filesystem (maybe even a
> tmpfs type), I could understand the change. Otherwise, "/run" isn't the
> brightest idea the powers that be ever unleashed on us. Just my
> opinion, and worth what you paid for it :-).
It will be a tmpfs:
http://lwn.net/Articles/436012/
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=620870
http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/RunDirectory
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