[dm-devel] [PATCH 03/18] multipathd: use /run instead of /var/run

[Hannes Reinecke]

On 10/08/2015 09:44 PM, Benjamin Marzinski wrote:
> /var/run is usually a symlink to /run.  If /var is on a separate
> filesytem, when multipathd starts up, it might end up writing to
> /var/run before the /var filesytem is mounted and thus not have
> its pidfile accessible at /var/run afterwards.  /run is a tmpfs and
> should always be available before multipathd is started, so
> multipath should just write there directly, instead of through the
> symlink.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins at redhat.com>
> ---
???

What now?

First we've been told by the systemd folks that using / directly is
evil, and everything needs to be moved to /var or /usr.

Now we should have to move it back?

Is there a reference for this?

Cheers,

Hannes
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