On Fri, 12.02.16 17:49, Simon McVittie (simon.mcvit...@collabora.co.uk) wrote:
> On 11/02/16 17:06, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > 5) Here's the controversial one I think: support for booting up > > without /var. We have kludges at quite a few places because we > > cannot access /var early during boot. > > I don't think /var is really the same thing as /usr: for a start, it has > to be read/write, whereas /usr and / can be read-only for at least the > early stages of boot. > > On stateless systems with a read-only / and /etc, requiring /var to be > mounted from the initramfs would mean that the mechanism for setting up > /var (NFS or tmpfs or whatever) would have to move into the > initramfs. Since initrds tend to cover root-on-nfs, root-on-iscsi and so on anyway, that sounds like no change in behaviour really.. > Which specific subdirectories of /var do you want mounted before pid 1 > starts? Presumably /var/lib/systemd and /var/log, and everything that's > necessary to mount those, but not necessarily their siblings? Yeah, mostly those, see other mail. > Would it be feasible to buffer read/write stuff in /run until /var comes > up, and then write it out afterwards? (I realise that's already how some > of it works, notably the Journal.) That's what we do currently. I'd love to reduce this. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
