Re: a place for a package directory in root

[Joerg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>]

Hello Goswin,

Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:
> Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> writes:
>
>> [Goswin von Brederlow]
>>> Nothing is available before init is started, init is always the
>>> first thing to start, even on initrd or initramfs (some archs call
>>> init linuxrc though).
>>
>> You suspect you miss the point.  bootchartd is a init _replacement_.
>> We use it by passing init=/sbin/bootchartd to the kernel.  It starts
>> recording statistics about the boot, and then run init to continue the
>> boot process.
>
> Then you are init. :)

Yes. :)

> My suggestion still stands. You have to mount /run or /dev/shm to make
> a place that is writable.

I think /dev/shm is not usable, because the devfsd init script might
mount a new filesystem on /dev/ which would cover my mounted /dev/shm.

What about /run/? Can a new package simply use/create /run? I would add
/run to the directories of the package and mount a tmpfs there at
startup. Is this alright?

Good night, Jörg.
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