[Fedora-packaging] FHS being ignored

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 06/28/2010 07:49 PM, Jesse Keating wrote:
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> On 6/28/10 9:04 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>> On 06/28/2010 05:19 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>>> Ralf Corsepius (rc040203 at freenet.de) said:
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>>>>> Won't work. /var can be a separate filesystem, cgroup filesystem
>>>>> may need to be available as boot.
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>>>> Who populates this directory?
>>>> Who uses it?
>>>>
>>> Any service that wants to create a control group.
>> And how is this different from any other currently existing service?
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>> Most of them don't work without /var or files spread across different
>> file systems, i.e. before any service is usable, at lease all required
>> filesystems need to be mounted.
>>
>> Ralf
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> Init mounts those filesystems, so requiring them to be mounted before
> init can run doesn't make sense.
Init has to mount at least "/", it has access to /etc/fstab and thus is 
able to mount/unmount/remount file systems ad lib.