On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:58:19PM +0200, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > > New text, which is hopefully clear enough: > > > > RAMLOCK > > Make /run/lock/ available as a ram file system (tmpfs). Set to > > 'yes' to enable, to 'no' to disable (defaults to yes). The size > > of the tmpfs can be controlled using TMPFS_SIZE and LOCK_SIZE in > > /etc/default/tmpfs. Note that irrespective of this setting > > /run/lock will be located on a tmpfs, either one mounted on > > /run/lock (if RAMLOCK=yes) or one mounted on /run (if RAM‐ > > LOCK=no), and as a result the contents of /var/lock will always > > be lost on system reboot, and it it is no longer explicitly > > cleaned at boot. Because of this, packages can not expect > > directories in /var/lock to exist after boot. Packages expect‐ > > ing this are buggy and need to be fixed. Note that /run/lock > > was previously /var/lock, and a compatibility symlink or bind > > mount will be created to allow the old path to continue to func‐ > > tion. > > In all the case could we create a mount point for /run/lock ? > A bind mount for disk based and a true mount for ramfs ? Sorry, but I'm not sure I get what you're saying here. Could you rephrase it more clearly? Thanks, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail.
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