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Re: /run vs. /lib/run



On Wednesday 25 January 2006 22:40, Thomas Hood <jdthood@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Tim Cutts wrote:
> > [...] In my case I was mounting /var/run
> > and /var/lock as  tmpfs filesystems all the time to reduce hard disk
> > access on a machine that was running all the time.
>
> Ubuntu is already mounting tmpfs's on /var/lock and /var/run.  It's a
> reasonable thing to do and we should support it.  That means that
> packages using these directories should create any subdirectories they
> need.

It's convenient that they did it first, now we can copy them with less 
breakage expected.

Are there any other related things that we should be copying from them?

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