On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 11:50:02AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > 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. Or /boot/var, perhaps (variable data, available at boot time). The problem with this is that /boot is a separate mountpoint, which could really be anywhere, even on the network in odd cases. It's also easier to make /boot read-only than / on existing Debian systems -- nothing but lilo and dpkg write into /boot at present. "/etc/var" or perhaps "/lib/var" could be made to work, without running the risk of breaking existing setups. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <aj@humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``Dear Anthony Towns: [...] Congratulations -- you are now certified as a Red Hat Certified Engineer!''
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