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From: Sebastian Herbszt <herbszt@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/10] multipathd: use /run instead of
 /var/run
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2015 23:38:32 +0200
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Benjamin Marzinski wrote:
> /var/run is usually a symlink to /run.  If /var is on a separate
> filesytem, when multipathd starts up, it might end up writing to
> /var/run before the /var filesytem is mounted and thus not have
> its pidfile accessible at /var/run afterwards.  /run is a tmpfs and
> should always be available before multipathd is started, so
> multipath should just write there directly, instead of through the
> symlink.

My older openSUSE doesn't have a /run directory.
Should this maybe depend on systemd or something else?

Sebastian