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

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 29.03.11 00:21, Kay Sievers (kay.sievers at vrfy.org) wrote:

> >>It's the other way round.
> >>
> >>We want to get rid of the hidden-files-in-/dev mess. Hence all those
> >>dirs will move to /run/ and /var/run will simply point to that.
> >
> > Ok that makes sense. But will /run stick around after initramfs is
> > done mounting & pivoting around?
> 
> Yeah, it is supposed to mount a tmpfs there and then move it to the real root.
> 
> > If so, what does LSB say to this new directory?
> 
> Nothing really, they just document current common practice. We might
> request an update to LSB after it is used for a while and has shown
> that it is what we want.

Also note that the Debian folks pinged the FHS/LSB folks about this
years ago, and as I read it they respondeed vaguely positively.

Lennart

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