Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: use of the /run directory

[Drake Wyrm <wyrm@haell.com>]

Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 2011/5/18 Olivier Cr??te <tester@gentoo.org>:
> > The main reason is that you want /run to be writable super early in the
> > boot process, before even / has been fscked and re-mounted. That means
> > you can do stuff like starting udevd in parallel with fsck of / which
> > means faster boot. This is one of the things required to get 1 second
> > boot.
> >
> > See http://lwn.net/Articles/436012/
> >
> 
> Related is that you don't need to manually wipe /tmp /var/run
> /var/lock via a service. They're automatically wiped when you reboot.
> This saves time during bootup.

Even if you don't have to wipe them with a service, you're going to need
to mount them with a service. You'll need to mount /run as tmpfs, create
the /run/lock directory, and then mount /run/lock as tmpfs. Do you
really want to add that to localmount?

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