> Bruce Perens writes: > >From: Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >>>1. The "initrunlevel" file is moving to /etc from /var/log. > >>/var/run, surely ? > > > >/var/run is possibly in a mounted filesystem. Init breaks if it can't > >find this file. I've been thinking about using a named pipe so that > >it will work with a read-only root. You can't change run-levels if > >you can't write this file. > > Isn't it just as likely that /var/log will be on a mounted filesystem? > (In fact /var is a separate filesystem on mine.)
In fact, isn't /etc guaranteed to be on the root filesystem? I don't see how a system can boot without it. Why move initrunlevel at all? I think other distributions will leave it in /etc. Jeff
