Hi there! On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 13:38:03 +0200, Roger Leigh wrote: > Josh Triplett suggested that we could use a single tmpfs on /run and > have the rest as symlinks into /run, with potentially a separate > tmpfs for user-writable filesystems to prevent a user DoS. This idea > does have merit, and we could make it the default. We currently do > this for /var/lock (/run/lock), which can be mounted as a separate > tmpfs on /run/lock if RAMLOCK is set in /etc/defaults/rcS.
Do you mean that the meaning of RAMLOCK has completely changed?
Currently, `man rcS` gives:
RAMLOCK
Make /var/lock/ available as a ram file system (tmpfs).
Will also disable cleaning of /var/lock/ during boot.
Set to 'yes' to enable, to 'no' to disable. The size
of the tmpfs can be controlled using TMPFS_SIZE and
LOCK_SIZE in /etc/default/tmpfs. Because of this,
packages can not expect directories in /var/lock to
exist after boot. Packages expecting this are buggy
and need to be fixed.
I consider completely changing it a serious bug, may I suggest
deprecating it completely and adding a new variable instead? I guess
the same should be applied to RAMRUN, i.e. simply deprecate it.
Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca
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