Emile van Bergen wrote: > First I want to say that /run is very much OK to solve the problem at > hand; it's just a pity that we decide to add a top-level direcory with a > such a very limited purpose. How about: /boot/state or such? /boot/run if you want it to be analagous with /var. The idea being that /boot tends to be small, and local, and that there is a mnemonic that this is stuff that gets written early during boot. The downside perhaps being that some admins choose to mount /boot ro most of the time. Just an idea. > Naming according to purpose has brought us /etc and /usr. These names > have no relevance whatsoever today. At least with naming according to > properties you don't run that risk. Yes, instead we would have /drum, /core, /tape, and /disk. Whee. (BTW, I just thought of a reasonable back-formation for /usr -- user-space programs.) -- see shy jo, who has a system with both /ram and /disk
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