From: Kay Sievers Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 17:58:03 +0000 (+0100) Subject: NEWS: clarify /dev/.run/ requirements X-Git-Tag: 174~234 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e68b4c2857942257268134cf7028b80f5a6a8103;p=systemd NEWS: clarify /dev/.run/ requirements --- diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index fcb6c75d..8da1cd9e 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -3,13 +3,15 @@ udev 167 Bugfixes. The udev runtime data moved from /dev/.udev/ to /dev/.run/udev/. -On new systems the tmpfs mountpoint /var/run/ will have an -"early-boot alias" /dev/.run/ where udev and a couple of other -early-boot tools will put their runtime data. -On systems with LVM used, packagers must make sure, that the -initramfs creates the /dev/.run/ mountpoint for udev to store -the data, so that the real root will not overmount it, which -would make it invisible. +On systemd systems the tmpfs mountpoint /var/run/ will have a +permanent "early-boot alias" /dev/.run/, where udev and a couple +of other early-boot tools will put their runtime data. + +On systemd systems with LVM used, packagers must make sure, that +the systemd and initramfs version match. The initramfs needs to +create the /dev/.run/ mountpoint for udev to store the data, so +that systemd will not overmount it, which would make the udev +data from initramfs invisible. The command 'udevadm info --convert-db' is gone. The udev daemon itself, at startup, converts any old database version if necessary.