On Wed, 30.03.11 16:24, Chris Adams (cmadams(a)hiwaay.net) wrote:
Once upon a time, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203(a)freenet.de> said:
> How about /var/run ??
>
> What would be wrong with it?
I believe the need is for something guaranteed to be on the root
filesystem, and having a separate /var is still valid.
I'm not sure why this doesn't go under /etc, but if I were king, the
proliferation of kernel filesystems (proc, sys, cgroup, selinux, etc.)
would be under /kernel, so maybe that's just me.
/etc is static configuration data.
/run is volatile runtime data.
/etc is read-only during boot.
/run is writable all the way.
Lennart
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Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.