Hi Roger, Roger Leigh wrote on Tue, May 24, 2011 at 11:01:56PM +0100:
> But if the system can get to the point of having /var mounted > without needing any writable filesystem, then /run is indeed > not strictly required. Exactly, that's very much to the point. Since /var is supposed to be the file system to hold variable data, we take care to not write to any filesystems before we have /var mounted. > So I think the remaining question is if we're going to > phase out /var/run and /var/lock, and what the timescale > for that might be if we do. Obviously, i can't speak for Linux. However, in OpenBSD, i'm not aware of any plans to move /var/run to /run. Regarding NetBSD, they seem to have /var/run, but not /run, see http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/etc/mtree/NetBSD.dist.base Regarding FreeBSD, things look similar, see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/etc/mtree/BSD.var.dist http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/etc/mtree/BSD.root.dist By the way, i don't see /var/lock/ in any of the BSDs, only /var/spool/lock/, but that's used exclusively by the UUCP subsystem as far as i can tell, or in other words, it's mostly obsolete, too. Yours, Ingo _______________________________________________ fhs-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/fhs-discuss
