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  • From: Ismael Luceno <ismael.luceno AT gmail.com>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] /run directory and FHS
  • Date: Mon, 2 May 2011 05:04:41 -0300

El Thu, 31 Mar 2011 10:02:33 -0500
David Kowis <dkowis AT shlrm.org> escribió:
> > I would still argue that creating the directory (or at least
> > testing for its existence and creating it if it's missing) via init
> > scripts is the most robust way to get it onto a system. Typically
> > smgl-fhs is only ever cast once (not counting cleanse runs), and if
> > such a critical directory somehow got wiped out the whole system
> > would be dead in the water. Having a means to ensure that its there
> > every boot is a good idea, IMHO. Also, it is meant to only ever
> > hold a tmpfs, so I think it's OK to create it on boot. Of course
> > it's also OK to create it via smgl-fhs, but at let's put some tests
> > in the boot scripts to make sure. :)
>
> Ah right, probably best to handle it via that. I was thinking that
> there was an smgl-fhs boot script. It's too early to think about
> stuff.
>

Having it created at boot time isn't an option because it would be
needed long before / is mounted in rw mode (and / doesn't need to be
writable actually).

I think it belongs to smgl-fhs.

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