FAI, Softupdates and /var/run as tmpfs

Thomas Lange lange at informatik.uni-koeln.de
Tue Feb 17 16:32:58 CET 2009


>>>>> On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:22:39 +0100, Axel Freyn <axel-freyn at gmx.de> said:

    > I'm using FAI 3.2.16 with lenny. In order to avoid problems with
    > clients which are not shut down properly by the users, I mount /var/run
    > and /var/run as tmpfs (by defining RAMLOCK=yes and RAMRUN=yes in
    > /etc/default/tmpfs).
AFAIK this does not work if /var is a seperate partition. See http://bugs.debian.org/423405

Have also a look at bug #464541, maybe it's related to your problem.
If not, it would be nice if you could file an additional bug
report. This is the best method so I will not forget to fix your bug.

    > But nevertheless, FAI is great;-)
Thanks.

-- 
regards Thomas


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