[systemd-devel] use /run instead of /dev/.run

[Ludwig Nussel]

Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Andrey Borzenkov (arvidjaar at gmail.com) said: 
> > On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 7:07 AM, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers at vrfy.org> wrote:
> > > Instead of the /dev/.run trick we have currently implemented, we decided
> > > to move the early-boot runtime dir to /run.
> > >
> > 
> > What is the benefit? /var/run is well known and established; what is
> > the reason to move it in another place?
> 
> /var/run depends on /var, which is allowed to be a separate filesystem, and
> therefore not available during all portions of the boot process or shutdown.

mount --bind /var/run /mnt
mount /var
mount -M /mnt /var/run

cu
Ludwig

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