[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Support for kernels without tmpfs

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Wed, 04 Oct 2006, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]n
> > What do we do?  Support machines without the initrw filesystem ?
> > Drop support for those (i.e. make tmpfs support mandatory) ?
> 
> I am happy to just declear that it isn't supported, but suggest we
> make it possible to install the packages on such machines, and let
> them fail at runtime.  If /lib/init/rw/ isn't going to be available,
> the system will be seriously crippled, and more so in the future.  I
> am not happy with dropping /lib/init/rw/, because we really need it to
> handle coldplug events properly, and it would be useful to store the
> fsck logs and perhaps to replace bootlogd too.  And as libnss-ldap
> already found use for it, I suspect even more packages will be using
> it in the future.
> 
> I must admit, that in my opinion kernels without tmpfs isn't supported
> today (as the shm* are not working), and those using them just have to
> live with the pain alone. :)

Let's take this to d-devel, then.  I will do it.

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