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From: christophe varoqui <christophe.varoqui@free.fr>
Subject: Re: multipathd.init
Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 23:25:05 +0200
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On ven, 2005-04-01 at 22:19 +0100, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 11:09:04PM +0200, christophe varoqui wrote:
> > Do we really want to do complicated things to close that window ? I
> > would guess not.
>  
> In other words, if the paths can't survive the window between initrd 
> running and init scripts completing, the machine doesn't deserve to boot.
> 
> And if you want the daemon in single-user mode, you can start it by hand.
> 
> Fair point.
> 
> So is there ever a requirement to run the daemon while /var is read-only?
>
I personnality guess not, but Debian people already got annoyed by that.
Don't how they handled it in the end.

Regards,
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christophe varoqui <christophe.varoqui@free.fr>