What's this /run directory doing on my system and where does it come from?

[Matthew Miller]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 01:54:30PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> The actual code changes we needed to implement this scheme were trivial
> (basically, just bind mount /var/run and /var/lock instead of mounting two
> new tmpfs' to them.), which is why we opted to do this so late in the F15
> cycle. However, the political implications are much bigger I guess, so
> let's see what a fantastic flamewar we can start with this on
> fedora-devel now. Flame away!

No flames from me. This is a sensible, thought-through change with
cross-distro buy-in and no major downsides. It is outside of the FHS, but is
in the _spirit_ of it, and would fit into an updated release of the
standard, if there ever were one.

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Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org>
Senior Systems Architect -- Instructional & Research Computing Services
Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences