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Re: anticipating the upstart migration



Alex Pennace <alex@pennace.org> writes:

> On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 10:16:51PM +0200, Hendrik Sattler wrote:
>> I propose another solution. Introduce init-common with wrappers:
>> * /sbin/init is a binary that
>>   - reads a configuration file with the init system name <iname> and
>>   - creates a file /var/run/inittype (or whereever is can be stored at that 
>> time) with the same value and
>
> /var may be a seperate file system, unmounted at that stage of booting.

/var/{run,lock} could be mounted as tmpfs in early userspace. Other
distributions are already doing this, and a few weeks ago, there was
discussion about doing this in debian as well.

-- 
Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4



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