On Sun, 2014-03-23 at 12:07 -0400, baho utot wrote: > I think there are not many folks that have that on a separate partition. > > That's really the only problem with using /var/run. > > If I had to count using my fingers how many systems I have worked on > that have /var mounted on a separate partition I could count them even > if I had no fingers.
Agreed, but some people apparently *do* use it - the usual examples given are around having a rootfs that's unsuitable for containing /var, e.g because it's on read-only media, or it's shared between multiple machines over an NFS mount. And under those circumstances, /run was needed because /var/run couldn't be relied on to exist. Simon. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
