Nirbheek Chauhan <[email protected]> wrote: > 2011/5/18 Olivier Cr??te <[email protected]>: > > The main reason is that you want /run to be writable super early in the > > boot process, before even / has been fscked and re-mounted. That means > > you can do stuff like starting udevd in parallel with fsck of / which > > means faster boot. This is one of the things required to get 1 second > > boot. > > > > See http://lwn.net/Articles/436012/ > > > > Related is that you don't need to manually wipe /tmp /var/run > /var/lock via a service. They're automatically wiped when you reboot. > This saves time during bootup.
Even if you don't have to wipe them with a service, you're going to need to mount them with a service. You'll need to mount /run as tmpfs, create the /run/lock directory, and then mount /run/lock as tmpfs. Do you really want to add that to localmount? -- Confucius is inscrutable. God is ineffable. Beer is inevitable.
