On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 01:34:19PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Jameie Wilkinson wrote: > >In case you hadn't noticed, booting is a special case. Notice how most > >stuff lives in /var and /usr, and not in the similarly named directories in > >/? > I only have two directories in /var/ that appear in /. I have somewhat > more in /tmp than I do in /var/tmp, and more in /lib than I do in > /var/lib. Really? I think your machine represents an exception, not the norm: $ du -sh /lib /var/lib 19M /lib 134M /var/lib on my workstation, and $ du -sh /lib /var/lib 5.8M /lib 234M /var/lib on one of my servers. > >/run is justified for parts of Debian that require a state directory and are > >run before the rest of the operating system has finished starting up. > >? > But there really don't seem to be many of those. How many are required before people will acknowledge that there's a gap in the FHS specification? > >/run is justified for parts of Debian that require a state directory and are > >run before the rest of the operating system has finished starting up. > Mountall is called early in the boot sequence. I can't see anything in > my startup that ought to be storing runtime state that happens before > that. A network mounted /var is a special case, not normal booting. And therefore we should ignore the needs of users who have network-mounted /var partitions? I thought the point of a distribution was to spread the burden of making the software work, so that people can spend their time getting real work done instead... -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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