On Mon, 5 Sep 2011, Bob Tracy wrote: > I noticed another change in "the way things are done" which is a clear > violation of the principle of least astonishment: it appears "/var/run" > is now symlinked to "/run" following a recent upgrade I applied. This > broke "radvd" which wants to put its PID file in a subdirectory of > "/var/run" (/var/run/radvd). Yeah, it's probably a bad idea for "radvd" > to be doing that, but moving "/var/run" without looking for side-effects > was a bad idea too. > > As a rule, I like as little filesystem I/O on the root fs as possible. > If "/run" on a fresh installation is a separate filesystem (maybe even a > tmpfs type), I could understand the change. Otherwise, "/run" isn't the > brightest idea the powers that be ever unleashed on us. Just my > opinion, and worth what you paid for it :-).
It will be a tmpfs: http://lwn.net/Articles/436012/ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=620870 http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/RunDirectory -- # TRS-80 trs80(a)ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au #/ "Otherwise Bub here will do \ # UCC Wheel Member http://trs80.ucc.asn.au/ #| what squirrels do best | [ "There's nobody getting rich writing ]| -- Collect and hide your | [ software that I know of" -- Bill Gates, 1980 ]\ nuts." -- Acid Reflux #231 / -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
