On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 01:37:11AM +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > This works at least on 2.6. [...] > This means that /var/run is always writable. That's really quite nice. I wonder if requiring 2.6 is even much of a problem -- 2.6.0 came out two years ago already and will be three by the time etch is released, after all; and I assume the Hurd can deal with this sort of issue trivially. If "tmpfs swaps out" isn't enough to deal with screen and similar apps's use of /var/run, it might be worth just moving them to /var/lib anyway. Legacy 2.4 support could probably be arranged by using mount --bind I guess, a la: mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /etc/var-run mount --bind /etc/var-run /var/run ... mount --no-nfs -a if ...; then mount --bind /etc/var-run /var/run; fi ... mount -a if ...; then mount --bind /etc/var-run /var/run; fi Cheers, aj
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