[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#616571: using /dev/shm for /var/run and /var/lock

[Santiago Vila]

reassign 616571 initscripts
thanks

On Sat, 5 Mar 2011, Harald Dunkel wrote:

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> Package: base-files
> Version: 6.1
> Severity: wishlist
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> Would it be possible to put /var/run and /var/lock (and maybe
> others) into /dev/shm? This could help to avoid a lot of write
> operations on /var, which would be interesting for SSDs. It
> could also speed up things at startup time and during cleanup.

Debian has RAMRUN and RAMLOCK variables in /etc/default/rcS for that.

I'm not sure if you meant that those variables should be "yes" by
default, or maybe you didn't know about them at all.

In either case, I am reassigning this report to initscripts, which is
the package creating /etc/default/rcS, as base-files does not really
have anything to do with this.

Thanks.