[Fedora-packaging] FHS being ignored

Jesse Keating jkeating at j2solutions.net
Mon Jun 28 17:49:28 UTC 2010


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On 6/28/10 9:04 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On 06/28/2010 05:19 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>> Ralf Corsepius (rc040203 at freenet.de) said:
>>    
>>>> Won't work. /var can be a separate filesystem, cgroup filesystem
>>>> may need to be available as boot.
>>>>        
>>> Who populates this directory?
>>> Who uses it?
>>>      
>> Any service that wants to create a control group.
> And how is this different from any other currently existing service?
> 
> Most of them don't work without /var or files spread across different 
> file systems, i.e. before any service is usable, at lease all required 
> filesystems need to be mounted.
> 
> Ralf


Init mounts those filesystems, so requiring them to be mounted before
init can run doesn't make sense.

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Jesse Keating
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