On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 10:47:45PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 11:45:48AM +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > So, it would be better to mount /run automatically without an > > /etc/fstab entry, since it's hard to say what that entry is. > > Besides, for a ramdisk, you still need to mkfs a filesystem on > > it before mounting it, so it's all special case code anyway. > We are in a position where we can cheat, though. Since we don't > automatically support read-only root partitions, we can just make /run > be on the root fs, and assume that admins who've already demonstrated > enough cleverness to cope with /etc/motd, /etc/network/ifstate, > /lib/modules/*/modules.* and so forth can cope with adding an fstab > entry for /run. Not to mention that moving mtab to tmpfs to solve the read-only /etc problem only introduces a new problem of initializing mtab with information about already-mounted filesystems. Perhaps this has already been solved, but if not, I think Debian should punt on it for the time being. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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