On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 01:27:19 -0500 Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote: > simply be mounted early. The whole point of /run is because it needs > to be on the root. The question then is that if /run must be on the > root, and /etc must be on the root, why bother separating the two? I believe the basic premise is that some people would like /etc to be mounted read-only in some configurations, and that /etc should hold only human-readable, admin-modifiable files. (Somebody else has suggested /etc/volatile or somesuch, which I would be just as happy with. Not that I care a whole lot either way. I know what files I can edit and which I can't, and I'm lucky enough that I don't have any configuration which would benefit much from a read-only /etc.)
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