On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 19:20, David W Noon <dwn...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:26:40 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote about Re: > [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought: > >> On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:01:24 +0100 >> David W Noon <dwn...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > [snip] >> > With the pending changes to udev scripts, you could well need /var >> > -- and anything else -- before udev starts. So it is in the same >> > category as /usr. >> >> Maybe, maybe not. >> >> However, no-one apart from you is even suggesting such a thing. For my >> part I'm going to ignore that possibility and concentrate on those >> things that are being seriously suggested. > > The Gentoo developers have been discussing just that. The reason is > that many of the daemons that can be started by udev scripts require > work files on /var, so we could well need /var mounted too.
But wait, that's what having /var/run being a link to /run was all about. This problem is supposed to be *solved* already, damnit -- Douglas J Hunley (doug.hun...@gmail.com) Twitter: @hunleyd Web: douglasjhunley.com G+: http://goo.gl/sajR3
