6, 2010 at 5:56 PM, Christoph Anton Mitterer <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 2010-07-16 at 20:11 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: >> /var/ is not required to be on the root file system, but >> must be available after the $local_fs point during boot. > Ah.. good to know,.. thought that could perhaps also be on > remote-filesystems...
What about services that start before $remote_fs is provided that place pidfiles in /var? Portmapper is an example of this. >> > Also, right after the init system starts, neither /proc, nor /dev, >> > nor /sys are there, right? >> This depends on what the initrd did. > Ok.. i see... but at least it's not guaranteed,.. as systems might not > use an initramfs at all,... and then these are mounted by the respective > init-script, right? > Yes, /etc/init.d/mountkernfs.sh > >> Probably not. The early boot is so special anyway, and consist of so >> few packages that there advantage of trying to generalize is probably >> outweighted by the effort to implenent it. The effort with init.d >> scripts should instead be on moving scripts out of rcS.d/ into >> rc[1-5].d/, to improve single user mode and increase concurrency >> during boot. > mhh,.. ok... I see :) > > > Cheers, > Chris. > -- -Will Orr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
