On Monday 06 November 2006 17:53, Roy Marples wrote: > ... > > However, one issue is a concern. All baselayouts defined svcdir > in /etc/conf.d/rc which defines where we hold the state information of the > running services. This defaulted to /var/lib/init.d - which is bad as /var > could be on a different partition. > > In 1.13, we've removed the variable from /etc/conf.d/rc and it's now forced > to /lib/rcscripts/init.d which is safe as /lib is always on the same > partition as /. The 1.13 ebuild will copy across existing state data, this > is not the problem. However, downgrading back to 1.12 is a problem as > services may have been stop, started etc in the middle. > > ... How is the case where the / partition always remains ro handled? Is rc-state information put into a tmpfs partition on that location, is the location configured differently for those?
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