Re: Possible system changes

2011-04-16 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Matthew Burgess wrote: > On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 21:32:38 -0700, Bryan Kadzban > wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 05:01:21PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >>> The purpose of this is to move a lot of things (.udev, etc) out of /dev >>> and eventually will end up holding files presently on /var/run and

Re: Possible system changes

2011-04-16 Thread +Jan
I like this change. Simplifying /var and removing things that don't really belong in /dev sounds positive to me. So if I'm understanding this correctly, /run will also eventually supersede /var/run altogether. Should we consider a compatibility symlink? Jonathan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/

Re: Possible system changes

2011-04-16 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 01:59:43AM -0600, Matthew Burgess wrote: > On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 21:32:38 -0700, Bryan Kadzban > wrote: > > > > Sounds good to me. Thinking about this change recently, it's a lot less > > scary than I thought originally, when looking at the various hotplug > > threads and

Re: Possible system changes

2011-04-16 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 21:32:38 -0700, Bryan Kadzban wrote: > On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 05:01:21PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> >> The purpose of this is to move a lot of things (.udev, etc) out of /dev >> and eventually will end up holding files presently on /var/run and >> /var/lock. >> >> Though