OK, so some people have raised concerns about writing in /lib is ugly and against LFS. Others have raised concerns about loosing their ramdisk support.
So - how do people feel about always keeping it mounted as a ramdisk (default tmpfs, then ramfs then ramdisk) in /lib/rcscripts/init.d? That means we're not writing to /lib directly and not using /var which makes me happy. ramdisk users and BSD users will loose the size of memory (default 1 meg) allocated, but this is definable. We an also preserve the deptrees between reboots if /lib/rcscripts is writeable so we can write it back when we shutdown. A net benefit of this is that we would could remove around 60 lines of code which handle the moving of $svcdir to disk whilst the system is active (handles locking, timeouts, nice messages, etc) The only downside is that ramdisk and BSD users do then have the potential to run out of space, but I've yet to see my 1meg svcdir on BSD go over 13% usage. So does this make everyone happy? Thoughts? -- Roy Marples <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/Linux/FreeBSD Developer (baselayout, networking) -- [email protected] mailing list
