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

[Lennart Poettering]

On Wed, 30.03.11 15:39, Ralf Corsepius (rc040203 at freenet.de) wrote:

> 
> On 03/30/2011 03:20 PM, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 03:05:35PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> >> On 03/30/2011 02:36 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
> >>> It is outside of the FHS,
> >> It's a clear violation of the FHS.
> >
> > Indeed, but there really is no suitable FHS-compliant location for files
> > of these types, so we had no choice but to violate the standard up to
> > now: nothing has changed in this respect.  As I see things, the proposal
> > is just to violate it in a much cleaner, co-ordinated and standardised
> > way.
> 
> How about /var/run ??

You didn't even bother to read my mail, did you?

/var is mounted very late at boot, after fsck, and so on. We need
something we can write during early boot, in fact even vom initrd. Hence
/var/run is not suitable.

Lennart

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