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Re: /run/, resolvconf and read-only root



On Mon, 2003-05-05 at 13:50, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:

> | What is wrong with the reasons given
> | for creating /run/, and what alternative to you favor?
> 
> I was taking the sysadmin's point of view.  And from that perspective,
> since I don't need RO /, nor do I think having a few state files in
> /etc is that bad, you are solving a non-problem with something that
> is yet-another-directory-in-/-which-I-don't-need.  (/opt is another)

>From that perspective there is no problem to solve, but things look
different to the admin of a system with a read-only boot medium.
Have you ever had your root filesystem mounted read-only for
maintenance?

You speak as if adding a directory to / were going to cause you some
problem, but you haven't explained how.
                                                     `-  
-- 
Thomas Hood <jdthood0@yahoo.co.uk>



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