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It sounds like one of the motivations for this change is to allow the root partition to be kept read-only. For that to work, /var would need to be a separate pa
by ianburrell 16y ago
It sounds like one of the motivations for this change is to allow the root partition to be kept read-only. For that to work, /var would need to be a separate partition and writable. There are still a few files and directories, like /etc/lvm/cache, which currently need to be writable and could be moved to /run.
- pyre 16y agoThere is an exchange between Lennart and a commenter in the comments to that effect. /etc/mtab is mentioned and Lennart says that in F15 it will be a symlink to /proc/self/mounts. http://lwn.net/Articles/436022/ http://lwn.net/Articles/436022/