On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 10:13:35PM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: > [Steve Langasek] > > Given the reality of /lib, is there any need for a separate /usr/lib? > > The principle is the same: /lib is used only for the minimal system > > required for booting, and everything else should go in /usr/lib. > > /run should be used only for junk that needs to be stored early in > > the boot sequence, and everything else should go in /var/run. > /var/run is *tiny*. In fact on my system it's close to 4 orders of > magnitude smaller than /usr/lib. I know why /usr isn't assumed to be > on the root filesystem, and it's not at all related to why a /run ramfs > that has to exist anyway might be inappropriate for /var/run. On the contrary; on some of my systems, I have at least /var/run/samba and /var/run/screen, which aren't guaranteed to stay small at all. On one particular samba fileserver I checked, /var/run is less than two orders of magnitude smaller than /usr/lib. :) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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