Re: [PATCH 12/12] dbus: inherit volatiles to support read-only rootfs

Burton, Ross
2013-01-25T13:18:34Z

On 25 January 2013 03:05, ChenQi <Qi.Chen@windriver.com> wrote:
> I added this patch because I encountered an error when starting the sato
> image.
> That is, the machine UUID needs to be written to /var/lib.
>
> I'm not familiar with dbus. Is it not necessary?

The file is necessary and needs to be persistent for at least the
lifetime of a boot, so generating it on dbus startup and writing to a
tmpfs is fine.

My point was that the commit doesn't say *why* it does what it does.

Ross