data files in /etc?

[Magosányi Árpád <mag@bunuel.tii.matav.hu>]

Hi!

There are some files in /etc which are actually data files representing
the state of the system. Like /etc/mtab, /etc/network/ifstate, or
/etc/lvmconf/* (it is not even a text file).
These files are written by programs in occasions one cannot with good
heart call configuration. Isn't it against the policy?

There are practical reasons behind my question:
-if one uses a configuration management tool (like tla) to track changes
 in the configuration, one will stumble upon them sooner or later.
-if one wants to make the boot process unable to modify configuration,
 they will also be stumbled upon. (And given the fact that mount
 actually deletes and recreates /etc/mtab, the challenge is...
 challenging.)

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