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

[Alasdair G Kergon]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 08:36:38AM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> 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.
 
Ack.

A sensible and long-overdue attempt to address one of the short-comings of the
standard.

If the FHS isn't updated to reflect this, then it's only making itself less
relevant.

(lvm2 now gains a proper new location for /etc/lvm/cache.)

Alasdair