Proposal: /lib/init/rw

Jon Masters jcm at redhat.com
Thu Feb 4 13:12:51 UTC 2010


On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 11:09 +0100, Harald Hoyer wrote:
> I would like to follow debian and add a tmpfs to /lib/init/rw , which would 
> serve as a transition from initramfs to real root for files from daemons, which 
> need to transition from initramfs, like mdmon, dmeventd, rpc.statd, etc.
> 
> FYI, /var is not an option, because it can be on a seperate partition.
> 
> Currently we use /dev/.initramfs, which is just a workaround, because /dev is 
> already available.
> 
> What do you think?

Is that specific directory LSB/FHS or similar? I didn't check, but if it
is it seems like a reasonable idea.

Jon.




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