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

[Clyde E. Kunkel]

On 03/30/2011 07:54 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> Heya,
>
> I just uploaded a new version of systemd into F15, which establishes a
> directory /run in the root directory. Most likely you'll sooner or later
> stumble over it, so here's an explanation what this is and why this is.
>
> It's a fairly minor technical change, though presumably people consider
> this a bigger political change, so I guess this deserves an
> explanation:
>
> <snip>
> 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!
>
> Lennart
>

Well, installed the new systemd, udev and dracut and rebooted several 
times and rebuit the initramfs.  Same ol' system (except for populated 
/run dir), no smoke, no noises, no howling ghosts, etc.  Nice quiet 
change.  Now to enjoy the flame war, it was kind of quiet on the fedora 
front.


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OldFart