[lsb-discuss] /srv

R P Herrold herrold at owlriver.com
Sun Apr 24 06:03:34 PDT 2011


On Sat, 23 Apr 2011, Bruce Dubbs wrote:

> Debian is moving towards a /run root directory for things 
> that are transient such as /var/run, /var/lock, /dev/shm, 
> udev data (why did udev *ever* think a hidden directory in 
> /dev was appropriate), mtab, etc. The /run directory should 
> be a tmpfs.

It is not at all clear to me about this last sentence's 
assertion -- init time scripting can clear away stale cruft, 
or not ... debugging a state of a crash after a reboot will 
not be so direct if a tmpfs was used

-- Russ herrold


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