From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QMSjV-0005RM-PT for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 17 May 2011 22:27:17 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B95001C1D8; Tue, 17 May 2011 22:27:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D90F1C0FD for ; Tue, 17 May 2011 22:26:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75C0E1B4032 for ; Tue, 17 May 2011 22:26:25 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -0.559 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.559 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.158, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_PBL=0.905, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL=0.877, RDNS_DYNAMIC=0.1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id ZJbmMH-GMQ8t for ; Tue, 17 May 2011 22:26:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fraenk.haell.com (c-24-10-95-210.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [24.10.95.210]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30C0C655EF for ; Tue, 17 May 2011 22:26:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fraenk.haell.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4F301BEEA9; Tue, 17 May 2011 15:26:11 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 15:26:11 -0700 From: Drake Wyrm To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: use of the /run directory Message-ID: <20110517222611.GA652@fraenk> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <20110517165748.GA3266@linux1> <1305655899.18096.4.camel@tablet> <20110517192056.GA13002@Vereniki.lan> <20110517202059.GA13735@Vereniki.lan> <1305665646.2645.5.camel@TesterTop4> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Fortune: new, adj.: Different color from previous model. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: b9dd34f72cdef19b1a691d5b41e72746 Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: > 2011/5/18 Olivier Cr??te : > > 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? -- Confucius is inscrutable. God is ineffable. Beer is inevitable.