On Wed, 30.03.11 15:39, Ralf Corsepius (rc040203(a)freenet.de) wrote:
On 03/30/2011 03:20 PM, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 03:05:35PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>> On 03/30/2011 02:36 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
>>> It is outside of the FHS,
>> It's a clear violation of the FHS.
>
> Indeed, but there really is no suitable FHS-compliant location for files
> of these types, so we had no choice but to violate the standard up to
> now: nothing has changed in this respect. As I see things, the proposal
> is just to violate it in a much cleaner, co-ordinated and standardised
> way.
How about /var/run ??
You didn't even bother to read my mail, did you?
/var is mounted very late at boot, after fsck, and so on. We need
something we can write during early boot, in fact even vom initrd. Hence
/var/run is not suitable.
Lennart
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