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

[Lennart Poettering]

On Wed, 30.03.11 21:08, Colin Watson (cjwatson at ubuntu.com) wrote:

> > So, I'd like to correct myself: "Ubuntu has agreed" to "To me it appears
> > that they will do it".
> 
> If you need somebody who works on Ubuntu for Canonical to support this,
> I'm happy to be such a person.  Supporting /var/run reliably in early
> boot has long been an irritant and requires at least one hack in our
> installer, and while /dev/.initramfs is functional it isn't exactly
> pretty.
> 
> Certainly, we should be conservative when introducing new top-level
> directories, but not to the point of obstinacy in the face of genuine
> problems.  /run makes sense, it already has quite widespread agreement,
> it feels Unixy, and migration will be straightforward with the aid of a
> few symlinks.  I should probably not try to cram this into Ubuntu 11.04
> now, but I'm happy to make this happen in Ubuntu 11.10.

Perfect, that's great news! Anything from Ubuntu's side you'd still like
to see changed in this scheme? 

If you have a longer devel cycle left for 11.10 you could probably even
go directly for symlinks in /var/run and /var/lock, how we plan it for
F16, instead of just bind mounting them like we do it for F15.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.