Re: [PATCH] base-files: add /run to dirs755 for systemd

[Jonathan Liu <net147@gmail.com>]

On 13/05/2013 8:53 PM, Burton, Ross wrote:
> On 13 May 2013 04:58, Jonathan Liu <net147@gmail.com> wrote:
>> The /run directory needs to exist when using systemd otherwise startup
>> fails with the following error:
>> systemd[1]: Failed to mount /run: No such file or directory
> This is a genuine bug, but I'm not convinced it is the whole fix.
> What about non-systemd images?  /run is meant to be a tmpfs, which is
> why udev installs a volatile link from /run to /var/run.  If we create
> a directory in sysvinit cases, we'll also need to mount a tmpfs on it.
>
> The FHS 3 draft specification actually ratifies /run[1] so we could
> take this advantage to start cleaning up our volatile layout in /var.
> Start by always creating /run in base-files, and always mounting it as
> tmpfs in fstab for the non-systemd case.  Then we can symlink /var/run
> to /run, /var/lock to /run/lock, and so on.
I have submitted a more complete patch for your review.
> Ross
>
> [1] http://www.linuxbase.org/betaspecs/fhs/fhs.html#runRuntimeVariableData
Regards,
Jonathan